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Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:45:06 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: rxvt and command prompt
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On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:57:04AM +0000, Robert White 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.

This is an incorrect assumption.  rxvt is using ptys.  Obviously  isql
isn't recognizing cygwin's ptys.

cgf

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