Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990416134956.00967c60@nats13.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> X-Sender: herron AT nats13 DOT informatik DOT uni-hamburg DOT de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:49:56 +0200 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com From: Dan Herron Subject: Command history problem? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Just like in a 'normal' bash shell, I can scroll up and down in my command history with the arrow keys (with the current CygWin setup, running on NT, using the normal command window on NT, not rxvt or anything else.) But, if I make the mistake of hitting the up-arrow key _while a command is executing_, when the command finishes, the system thrashes the hard drive for about 20 seconds to a minute, before finally dumping some control characters on the prompt line. Only then do I get my system back. (And I have, of course, tried to hit Control-C, etc, which probably only makes things worse in this case.) Does anybody know what causes this? It's terribly frustrating, since I'm the type who executes command A, then command B, then command C, then A again..., and so I frequently have to sit there as my computer turns temporarily into an expensive paper-weight. thanks for any ideas, Dan Daniel Herron Universitaet Hamburg / Fachbereich Informatik phone: (49) 40 / 428 83 2519 AB Natuerlichsprachliche Systeme fax: (49) 40 / 428 83 2515 Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30 herron AT informatik DOT uni-hamburg DOT de D-22527 Hamburg -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com