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Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:30:11 +0200 (MET DST)
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To: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Rxvt vs. command.com as standard cygwin window
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Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com> said:

Randall> I can see no reason to involve CMD or COMMAND or to use RUN
Randall> in the process of getting a Cygwin shell going. I don't know
Randall> if this is suitable under Windows 9x or ME, but for NT and
Randall> 2K, it works fine.

I use Windows 98, and without the command.com to start bash there
won't be any way to do cut and paste in the cygwin console window. If
I start rxvt without run, I'll get an ugly black terminal window which
immediately goes away and rxvt appears.

Axel

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