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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 12:32:06 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone using cygwin=title ?
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:31:35PM +0300, egor duda wrote:
>Answering to Stephan, i think that kludge in CYGWIN variable is useful
>only when applications themselves cannot set title (and most
>applications are supposed to use terminfo for that). Having this
>functionality in "kernel" is unique cygwin feature, i guess. i've
>heard of no other unix that doing anything similar.

Except for Windows 9x, if you want to call that a "kernel".

I've always been annoyed by the flashing of the console window as programs
are started and stopped.  Red Hat people have actually asked me how to
turn off this cygwin "feature".

>changing title is a job for application, not kernel.

Thank you.  That's my point, exactly.

cgf

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