From: pd AT kubism DOT ku DOT dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Subject: Re: 2 newlines instead of 1? 21 Jan 1997 11:36:19 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: References: <199701210422 DOT WAA32186 AT cube DOT ice DOT net> Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: kunglao@prairienet.org's message of Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:22:20 +0000 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.40/Emacs 19.34 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com kunglao AT prairienet DOT org writes: > > > > But in DOS, running a.exe gives: > > > > > > C:\Work>a > > > Hello world! > > > > > > C:\Work>_ > > I'm sure he just meant a DOS shell run in win95, since nothing made > with cygwin32 runs in plain MSDOS . I've also noticed this behavior, > a fix would be nice .. but it's not a emergency or anything :). - and cat > file puts an extra blank line at the top, - and terminating a ported Unix program with ^D leaves the character in the input buffer, so that you need to backspace to answer confirmation questions. Er, that wasn't clear ... effect like this: > command output > command more output > ^D save workspace (y/n/c)? * with '*' being the caret character that indicates ^D In the same vein: > command output > command more output > q() save workspace (y/n/c)? save workspace (y/n/c)? - as if an extra CR is getting sent. Using the readline library, by the way. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p DOT dalgaard AT biostat DOT ku DOT dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".