On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Mike Marchywka wrote: >> >>> Is there some option to turn off to make this reasonable or has anyone >>> else seen this problem? I set display options to maximize performance >>> and there don't seem to be any options available for the cygwin window >>> that would help. >> >> Yep, the Windows console is slow alright, and I don't know of any way >> to speed it up. What I can recommend are the alternative terminal >> emulators available in Cygwin: xterm, rxvt, and the recently added >> mintty (by yours truly), all of which scroll a lot faster than the >> console. >> >> (Please note that all three share one drawback though: native Windows >> console programs might not work correctly in them, particularly >> input.) > > What is wrong with the native apps ? I use them in some scripts > but usually not interactively. I don't normally care about text > formatting if output is just a bit different.
IO buffering won't work the way they expect when they don't have a real console. So, you wind up with weird conditions like the program waiting for input after printing out a prompt - but the app didn't call fflush(), so the prompt hasn't actually been displayed, but it's still waiting for you to answer the question. Using them in a scripted way should work fine, it's just interactive usage that you would expect to be broken. ~Matt -- 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/
