Subject: Re: rxvt popping up and disappearing again ?
From: [email-masked] (Geoffrey Noer)

27 Oct 1997 16:20:27 -0800
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To: [email-masked] (Arlindo da Silva)
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Arlindo da Silva wrote:
> 
> Yep, set CYGWIN_TTY=1
> 
> Geoffrey: why can't this be the default?

The reason is that taking over the console in this way prevents the
use of regular console apps like vim.  Starting vim with CYGWIN_TTY
set results in a failure dialog of some sort.  Until this is figured
out, CYGWIN_TTY will default to off.

This will be documented in b19 docs.

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Geoffrey Noer
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