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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'John Peacock'" <jpeacock AT rowman DOT com>,
   David Starks-Browning
	 <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: cygwin console
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 15:54:32 +0100 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Peacock [mailto:jpeacock AT rowman DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 3:21 PM
> To: David Starks-Browning
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: cygwin console
> 
> 
> David Starks-Browning wrote:
> > 
> > On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Gerrit P. Haase writes:
> > > I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygwin after a
> > > fresh setup.  At least for Win98 users.
> > 
> > I fully agree, but who is going to do the work?
> > 
> 
> The change is truly trivial:
> 
> --- cygwin.bat.orig     Tue Jan  8 09:15:22 2002
> +++ cygwin.bat  Tue Jan  8 09:20:22 2002
> @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
>  D:
>  chdir \cygwin\bin
>  
> -bash --login -i
> +start rxvt -sl 300 -e bash --login -i
> 
> but since this file is, I believe, originally created by the 
> CygWin installer, 
> the change needs to happen there.

There is another change that's needed: rxvt should be placed in the "Base"
category so that it is installed by default. But altogether this should be
quite a good move.

Thanks again for all the good work,

	Bernard

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Microprocess Ingenierie
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