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 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:35:46 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box?? Message-ID: <20021127153546.GE6924@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1038398679.16091.23.camel@lifelesswks> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1038398679.16091.23.camel@lifelesswks> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:04:38PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:10, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >>Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default installed >>terminal emulator instead of the DOS box? I can't imagine any Win9x >>user could possibly complain, and any NT+ user that would is simply >>misguided ;-). > >Well, it's been discussed before IIRC. Certainly I'm in favour of it. I don't know how often I've expressed my opinion but I am mildly against it. The problem is that cygwin's pty implementation is not perfect. It can't run some native windows programs and it can deadlock occasionally. There are some patches available that potentially solve the deadlock issue but they need more testing. Anyway, I'm concerned that defaulting to rxvt will just shuffle the bug reports from "How do I get scroll bars?" to "Why doesn't my XYZ software work right on CygWIN?" cgf -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions or observations. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- 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/