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 Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:46:32 -0700 Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <414E8B1A DOT 8040103 AT overbored DOT net> <414EA28E DOT 122EB347 AT dessent DOT net> <20040920143930 DOT GD6915 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20040920153922 DOT GA7869 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-67-102-25-114.lsanca54.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) In-Reply-To: <20040920153922.GA7869@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:24:44AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:15:46AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> >>>> Is there a CYGWIN setting to tell rxvt not to use ptys? >>> >>> How could a program like rxvt possibly work without ptys? >> >> I have no idea. I don't know how nor why they are required. Perhaps >> you could enlighten us? 'Cause from the outside rxvt looks just like >> the standard windows window (albeit with more functionality) and that >> window doesn't seem to require ptys... > > > rxvt is a port of a UNIX program. UNIX uses ptys. Windows doesn't > support the notion of ptys. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=define:pty Thanks for the define: thingy of Google. I didn't know that! > If you want to run a standard windows window (i.e., a console window) > then that's what you get when you click on the cygwin icon. I understand that. But I like using rxvt much better WRT terminal resizing and copy/paste semantics (as well as color and font options). > The terminal input and output is largely controlled by windows and > cygwin has little say over how characters are handled. If it was as > easy as just using this, don't you think we'd have been doing this by now? I never said it would be easy - just desired. Would it be possible to implement a command then that says exec this with tty's instead of ptys? -- If you mated a bulldog and a shitsu, would it be called a bullshit? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/