Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020321101655.02233c80@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:19:32 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: termcap problem in RXVT? In-Reply-To: <3C99688C.1010906@DeFaria.com> References: <20020319212030.GB24191@tuxedo.skovlyporten.dk> <4.3.1.2.20020320175512.02211c10@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20020320203416.0221c688@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:58 PM 3/20/2002, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > >>>Not really. All the below reference says is that this is intentional, not why it's being done. My question was why. >>If you follow the later posts as I mention below, you might find the answers. > > >Don't have the time. > > >>If you're really interested in understanding what the background on this >>issue is, you'll want to check out the discussions in the email archives >>regarding the problems that arose when bash was changed. >>BTW, bash was changed because these environment variables are set at login >>on *NIX platforms, so setting them in bash is redundant at best. >>But I still recommend looking at the email archives to understand everyone's ideas on this issue. > > >I really don't have the time to do this. I just pointed out the issue. OK. I guess I was just pointing out that this issue has already been discussed. To my mind, it's not a problem awaiting a solution. It's merely awaiting someone interested enough to implement the proper solution. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/