On Aug 7 12:06, marco atzeri wrote: > On 8/7/2012 10:20 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >Greetings, marco atzeri! > > > >>a "windows console terminal" is cmd.exe, IMHO. > > > >No. > > > >>There are no other console in windows as standard installation. > > > >You're confusing terminal with shell. > >CMD.EXE is a shell, same as BASH. > >Console is a ... well, console. > > > > > >-- > >WBR, > >Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 07.08.2012, <12:19> > > > >Sorry for my terrible english... > > > > I guess Corinna already explained that, and I have no objections. > > But I still need to see a practical example of > running a M$ program like ping and stopping it with Ctrl+C > without CMD (or another shell).
Why don't you just try it? On W7: Start Menu -> Run... -> Enter "ping -t cygwin.com" -> Start Task Manager -> Observe the absence of cmd.exe but the presence of conhost.exe -> Press Ctrl-C in the ping console window. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
