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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:43:59 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "Using cygwin Effectively with Windows" -- Draft of new User's Guide section
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:35:27PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
>> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
>> Of Joshua Daniel Franklin
>
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:20:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > My comments:
>> >
>> > Please don't suggest that setting CYGWIN=tty is necessary for running
>> > rxvt.  The only reason to set CYGWIN=tty is if you are running bash
>> > in a standard command window.
>>
>> Here's the updated wording for that:
>> --BEGIN--
>> To help deal with these issues, Cygwin supports customizable levels of
>> Windows verses Unix compatibility behavior. To be most compatible with
>> Windows programs, use a DOS prompt, running only the occasional Cygwin
>> command or script. Next would be to run bash with the default DOS box. To
>> make Cygwin more Unix compatible in this case, set CYGWIN=tty (see the
>> section called The CYGWIN environment variable). Alternatively, rxvt,
>> an optional package available from setup.exe, provides a native-Windows
>> version of the popular X11 terminal emulator. Using rxvt.exe provides
>> the most Unix-like environment, but expect some compatibility problems
>> with Windows programs.
>
>Maybe add somthing like:
>  Once again, having "CYGWIN=tty" isn't meaningful when running rxvt.
>here at the end - just to emphasize it.

I agree.  You could even add that it would just add CPU processing
overhead to rxvt for no gain.

cgf

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