On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:57:04AM +0000, Robert White wrote: >All > >I have a problem using rxvt on the Windows 98 platform. I use rxvt over >the command prompt because it gives me a useful scrollback facility. > >I do a lot of database administration on SYBASE and Microsoft servers, >and these come bundled with a utility called isql. > >The problem I have is in the way this application works with rxvt. >Usually when you open an isql session you get a prompt like > >1> > >However on rxvt, this is not the case, you get nothing. Although if you >run a command the results are returned, but without the prompt again. > >This is not due to the cygwin environment, because if I run cygwin in a >command shell, isql works fine.
This is an incorrect assumption. rxvt is using ptys. Obviously isql isn't recognizing cygwin's ptys. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
