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Date:	Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:42:41 -0400
From:	"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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CC:	David Christensen <dpchrist AT holgerdanske DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Cygwin, ssh, and top
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Chris Taylor wrote:
> David Christensen wrote:

<snip>

>> My preference is still that Cygwin bash ssh work correctly with Debian 
>> 3.1, and
>> I believe the problem is with whatever package provides terminal stuff 
>> in Debian
>> 3.1.  I'll try to find the package and file a bug report.
>>
> 
> It should be pointed out that rxvt can be used in place of CMD.EXE, 
> which is what is started by the Cygwin icon created by setup.
> 
> If you want to do that, here is my cygwin.bat:
> 
> @echo off
> 
> C:
> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
> 
> rxvt -sl 10000 -sr +sk -si -sw -fg Green -bg Black -e /bin/bash --login -i
> 
> 
> Obviously the path needs to be altered to whatever you have for your 
> cygwin installation.
> I find this to be much more usable than using bash inside cmd.exe - 
> things actually work.

I think what David is saying here is that if there weren't a bug in Debian
3.1 terminal settings, this would work either way, just as it did in 3.0.
Regardless of the workarounds for the bug, there is still a bug and it's
worthwhile getting it fixed, if for no other reason than it will cut down on
some future traffic on this list. ;-)


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