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Subject: RE:  Question about rxvt
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:18:54 -0500
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Maurício wrote:
>    I've been using rxvt, as recommended by chere man page. I have a
> problem: in some non-cygwin console programs (ghci, the Haskell
> interpreter, and others) the up arrow key doesn't work as expected.

This has been discussed here previously. Non-cygwin programs
don't recognize that they're connected to a terminal window.
If this is important to you, you may have to start them in a
command window. Here's one of the many ways to do it from a
Cygwin shell:

  cmd /c start MYPROG

gsw

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