Christopher Thanks for replying.
Can you elaborate please? Is there a way I can get isql to recognise rxvt's pyts? Thanks Rob Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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/ -- 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/
