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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:24:44 -0700 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <414E8B1A.8040103@overbored.net> <414EA28E.122EB347@dessent.net> <20040920143930.GD6915@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-67-102-25-114.lsanca54.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) In-Reply-To: <20040920143930.GD6915@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:15:46AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> Is there a CYGWIN setting to tell rxvt not to use ptys? > > How could a program like rxvt possibly work without ptys? I have no idea. I don't know how nor why they are required. Perhaps you could enlighten us? 'Cause from the outside rxvt looks just like the standard windows window (albeit with more functionality) and that window doesn't seem to require ptys... -- I used to have a handle on life, then it broke. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/