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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: Maurício <briqueabraque AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Wrapper for readline
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:26:58 +0000
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>    I've seen the source package from readline and there's a file under 
> examples directory called rlfe.c.

And readline's ./configure; make does not build it, because it is not yet
fully-baked (it is provided more as a starting point for the interested).  I
may consider adding it to my readline package distribution if I can ever
get it built, but it is not my highest priority at the moment.

 I imagine that is a utility to wrap 
> readline to be used with non-readline console programs. Why isn't that 
> utility part of cygwin distribution, doesn't it work on Windows?
>    Also: I've just installed rlwrap (utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap), 
> that does exactly that. What should I do to sugest it to be part of 
> cygwin distribution?

Read http://cygwin.com/setup.html for how to become a
package maintainer.

-- 
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin readline maintainer

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