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From: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 12:43:34 -0800
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Subject: Re: Couple of nits about Cygwin
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References: <001701bff899$53404970$f7c723cb AT lifelesswks>; from robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au on Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:39:57PM +1000
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Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:

> The loss of cursor has been a problem with cygwin for some time.
> 
> I probably aggravated the problem when I changed console input to
> be more UNIX-like, allowing CTRL-D to terminate input, and getting
> stty commands to work.
> 
> When you type a bunch of characters, the cursor disappears for a time.
> I saw this on Windows 2K under ash.  I was specifically looking for this
> because I was going to investigate a readline alternative, myself.
> 
> Of course, fixing readline doesn't solve the problem for programs that
> don't use readline.  DJ's patch seemed to be the most generic fix for
> the problem.

Yep, and it seems to be working nicely. However I did notice that if 
you telnet to another box (a local Linux box in my case), the cursor 
problem is not completely resolved. The cursor 'sort-of' disappears 
when you cursor through the command line, but it comes back almost 
instantly when you take your finger off the cursor key.

I suspect this has something to do with the network latency involed 
in telnetting to another machine?

Regards,

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