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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:17:42PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 20 March 2007 17:08, Brian Keener wrote:
>
>> Brian Keener wrote:
>>> Ahhh,
>>> 
>>> found it.
>
>> CYGWIN=binmode ntsec nostrip_title title tty
>
>AFAIUI, the rule-of-thumb is that the 'tty' setting should only be used
>in xterm/rxvt or other native cygwin terminal, and never in yer
>bog-standard dos-shell window.

Actually, it's the reverse.  The tty setting has no use in xterm or rxvt.
You can use it if you want full tty handling in the console window, at the
expense of all of the problems that you see in rxvt, with certain straight
windows apps not working correctly.

cgf

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