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From:	Dtcohen AT aol DOT com
Message-ID:	<8.1c550a.25b0c710@aol.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Jan 2000 13:38:08 EST
Subject:	Re: getc() problem with Cygwin v1.0
To:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
CC:	Dtcohen AT aol DOT com
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>
>I'm not sure this is related, but I posted about something
>similar a few weeks back (and had no responses).  I'm not
>running v1.0, right now I'm running the 2000/01/05 snapshot
>and the following is still true ...
>
>---
>
>Subject: line editing not working with rxvt and recent cygwin snapshots
>
>Line editing (erase/kill) isn't working within rxvt.  I'm not
>sure why, but characters are being processed immediately.
>
>It's easy to demonstrate, start up "cat" reading from stdin and then
>just type "abc ENTER".
>
>In the normal console you'll see:
>
>        bash$ cat
>        abc
>        abc
>
>In rxvt:
>
>        bash$ cat
>        aabbcc
>
>With my old b20.1 setup, rxvt and line editing works fine.
>
>For the test, I forced my stty settings to be identical
>on both ttys.  And CYGWIN does set "tty".
>
>Unfortunately, I can't really strace the process when
>running under rxvt, because the strace pops open a normal
>console window for ttyin/ttyout and then everything works.
>
>Any ideas on how to track this down?  Some kind of difference
>between pseudo-terminals and console-terminals?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Eric Fifer
>

Eric,

     Thanks for the post.  Looks like the same problem I'm seeing.
I'm willing to spend some time tracking this down but unfortunately I don't
have a clue where to start...

Jim Grishaw.
dtcohen AT aol DOT com

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