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From: Francis Litterio <franl AT world DOT std DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior
 weirdness
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:03:59 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <018e01c2e71e$398ecc10$78d96f83@pomello> ("Max Bowsher"'s
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Max Bowsher wrote:

> Richard H. Broberg wrote:
>> In the meantime I'll
>> happily use rxvt in place of bash, since it does what I need.
>
> You are confused.
>
> rxvt is a terminal.
> bash is a shell.

Looked at another way:

	rxvt is a GUI application.
	bash is a console application.

When bash runs, Windows allocates a console.  When rxvt runs, Windows
doesn't allocate a console.  Very different behaviors result.
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