X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 11:09:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Andrew DeFaria cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: terminal escape codes In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <445B9333.6090109@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 5 May 2006, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Jeff Lange wrote: > > While that does work, It unfortunately isn't an acceptable solution > > for me. I really need to be running this from a plain text console. > > How is running rxvt not a plain text console?!? I use rxvt all the time. > I don't like the "Windows window" as it's cut and paste semantics are > horrible as well as it's resizing (in)ability. Windows has a notion of a "console window". rxvt, xterm, ssh, and pretty much any other Cygwin program that doesn't allocate an explicit console window uses ptys to emulate console output. Some Windows programs cannot understand ptys, and thus don't work properly via ssh, or in rxvt. So the OP's need may be valid. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/