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From: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:05:07 -0800
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Subject: Re: Couple of nits about Cygwin
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DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> >  1. When you start a bash shell, the cursor flashes at a reasonable 
> > rate, but when you start typing it generally disappears from view. 
> 
> This has always bothered me, but I always thought it was NT doing
> it. Testing in the MS-DOS window shows that it's not NT.  Sigh. 

No, it is definately not NT. If I telnet from a regular command 
prompt to a Linux box the cursor works fine. However telnetting from 
a bash shell has the same problem as the bash shell itself.

Also I noticed that the cursor block is slightly larger than a 
regular NT command prompt window.

Any ideas about what would be causing this? I assume that bash goes 
through the curses library to access the NT console, so perhaps this 
is a bug in the NT version of curses? That might be an easy place to 
try and track this down...

Regards,

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