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From: "Jeff Lange" <jlange6648 AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: terminal escape codes
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While that does work, It unfortunately isn't an acceptable solution
for me.  I really need to be running this from a plain text console.

Any other ideas?

Thanks.
-Jeff


On 5/5/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> Jeff Lange wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  I have a program that will connect to another host via telnet and
> > work like a terminal emulator.  This works fine in Linux, but under
> > cygwin, when the host sends out the vt220 command <ESC>(B  cygwin
> > apparently doesn't know how to handle this escape code, and it ends up
> > displaying the B on the screen,
> >
> > In Linux if I type "echo ^[(Btest" at a command prompt it comes back
> > as "test", but if I do the exact same thing at a cygwin prompt it
> > comes back as "Btest"
> >
> > Does anyone know a simple way around this?
>
>
> Run rxvt (or xterm if you're running X) instead?
>
>
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