On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:35:27PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf >> Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:20:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > My comments: >> > >> > Please don't suggest that setting CYGWIN=tty is necessary for running >> > rxvt. The only reason to set CYGWIN=tty is if you are running bash >> > in a standard command window. >> >> Here's the updated wording for that: >> --BEGIN-- >> To help deal with these issues, Cygwin supports customizable levels of >> Windows verses Unix compatibility behavior. To be most compatible with >> Windows programs, use a DOS prompt, running only the occasional Cygwin >> command or script. Next would be to run bash with the default DOS box. To >> make Cygwin more Unix compatible in this case, set CYGWIN=tty (see the >> section called The CYGWIN environment variable). Alternatively, rxvt, >> an optional package available from setup.exe, provides a native-Windows >> version of the popular X11 terminal emulator. Using rxvt.exe provides >> the most Unix-like environment, but expect some compatibility problems >> with Windows programs. > >Maybe add somthing like: > Once again, having "CYGWIN=tty" isn't meaningful when running rxvt. >here at the end - just to emphasize it.
I agree. You could even add that it would just add CPU processing overhead to rxvt for no gain. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
