Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <01C18B62.1A086C20.jorgens@coho.net> From: Steve Jorgensen Reply-To: "jorgens AT coho DOT net" To: "cygwin AT cygwin. Com (E-mail)" Subject: RE: rxvt and command prompt Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 03:05:23 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I haven't tried to use rxvt for a while, but last time I did, I was having problems with it always being one line behind on output. I would see all the output eventually, but not until the following line was printed. Could this be the same issue? On Sunday, December 23, 2001 1:57 AM, Robert White [SMTP:Robert DOT White AT morganstanley DOT com] wrote: > All > > I have a problem using rxvt on the Windows 98 platform. I use rxvt over > the command prompt because it gives me a useful scrollback facility. > > I do a lot of database administration on SYBASE and Microsoft servers, > and these come bundled with a utility called isql. > > The problem I have is in the way this application works with rxvt. > Usually when you open an isql session you get a prompt like > > 1> > > However on rxvt, this is not the case, you get nothing. Although if you > run a command the results are returned, but without the prompt again. > > This is not due to the cygwin environment, because if I run cygwin in a > command shell, isql works fine. > > I have heard from a tools developer that isql returns 2 streams, a > message and a result stream, so I figure this must be in someway > connected to the way command shell and rxvt handle standard error, or > something like that in a different manner. I tried running isql with the > 2>&1 redirective but to no avail. > > I know this must make little sense to people not familiar with the > tools, but I was kind of hoping there would be someone who happened to > have used isql on this list. > > Thanks as always in advance for any help, and happy holidays. > > Rob > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/