I am really sorry to drone on about this, but I've tried to reduce the problem to its basics. I feel more or less certain there's something a bit glitchy with recent versions of login and how it interacts with rxvt.
(BTW, I have not yet updated to login-1.6-1 as recently announced.) Start Cygwin with the sparse switchless command c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe Then just do this: $ stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 25; columns 80; line = 0; < .. and lots of other stuff .. > $ login login: <yourusername> fergus @ LEPER ~ $ stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 0; columns 0; line = 0; < .. and lots of other stuff .. > In this second case of stty -a, rows and columns have altered from 25 and 80 to 0 and 0. Is this not the root of the problem earlier described under "pico and nano: number of lines displayed"? To do this test I deleted .bash_profile, .bashrc and .inputrc. It seems to me that this is as sparse an example as I could have provided of this strange behaviour, and would like to know whether others can duplicate it? I am using Windows 98 S/E. Thank you. Fergus -- 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/
