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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: "CA List" <Cygwin-Apps AT Cygwin DOT Com>
Subject: RE: Category for rxvt [was: Re: attn: which, bzip2,gzip maintainers (was Re: some problems with setup.ini)]
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:38:02 -0600
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> Well, rsvt isn't really a shell either, it is a GUI presentation manager
> for the stdin, stdout, stderr, etc.  It needs a real shell to do
> anything useful.  What about W11 since that's what it is, W11 = X11
> converted to native win32.
>
> Earnie.

Back in the day, we used to call "GUI presentation managers for the stdin,
stdout, stderr, etc", "terminals" or "terminal emulators", didn't we?  Would it
make any sense to have a "terminals" category with one entry?  (well, I suppose
telnet would qualify too).

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Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.

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