Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
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 <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:  Re: rxvt as replacement for windows terminal
Date:  Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:40:03 -0700
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <diq882$eg0$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <20051014165430 DOT GA11098 AT h55p111 DOT delphi DOT afb DOT lu DOT se>
Mime-Version:  1.0
Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding:  7bit
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.4 (Windows/20050908)
In-Reply-To: <20051014165430.GA11098@h55p111.delphi.afb.lu.se>
X-IsSubscribed: yes

Christoffer Gurell wrote:
> I want to use rxvt shipped with cygwin as a replacement for the 
> windows crappy terminal which cygwin uses as default.  The problem is 
> that native windows binaries like edit.com
Try vim! ;-)
> or python for windows
Try Python for Cygwin! ;-)
> does not work in rxvt. The terminal just hangs up.  Is there a 
> solution for this or what is the problem?
What gets me right now is cleartool from IBM Rational is written for 
Windows and doesn't handle the pty's that Cygwin's rxvt (and rsh, etc.) 
use. That and I'm currently working on a Perl script for Clearquest 
which requires cqperl - an ActiveState based Perl which also doesn't 
understand ptys...

But for you I fail to see why you would want to use edit.com! I mean 
geezer a .com executable! Ain't that quaint!

And as for python, I would hope that you are writing the sort of Python 
code that it relatively portable so you can use Cygwin's Python and if 
you must use whatever Python for Windows you have after you're done. If 
I didn't need to use cqperl I'd be using Cygwin's Perl...
-- 
2400 Baud makes you want to get out and push!!


--
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/