Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/07/11/17:49:59
Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
>
> Pseudo-tty support added. The binary archive includes cygwin-compiled rxvt
> X terminal emulator. You need cygwin-compiled X11R6.3 distribution to be
> installed to /usr/X11R6.3 to run rxvt. Working on inetutils-1.3 telnetd...
Nice work, Sergey .. I particularly like the rxvt!
The principle of CYGWIN_NOTTY seem a good idea. Although of course it is
possible to re-port back to gnu-win32 all those old unix apps (less,
ncftp, micro emacs, emacs -nw, beav, elvis) it would be a shame to lose
the ability to launch their existing native console-direct
implementations from the same command window.
Unless I'm doing something wrong though, CYGWIN_NOTTY is not doing quite
the thing I would expect (at least on NT4). Setting it before launching
bash is fine - I get a cygwin environment that allows console direct but
not pseudo-tty. Setting it within bash, however, does not switch to
allow launching of console direct apps; in fact, even things like ls no
longer produce output!!
Have you also made some changes to the reporting and use of ownership?
Ls -l now reports usernames rather than numerical IDs. There is, for
example, some impact (which I don't yet understand) on the operation of
the command line in mc-4.0 which works fine (with a # prompt) using your
cygwin.dll from 06 Jul but only works under an Administrator account
using the 10 Jul dll. From a User account it gives (correctly) a $
prompt but (incorrectly) will launch nothing from it ... just like with
the unpatched B18 cygwin.dll.
Anyway, it's all very exciting.
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