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Andrew Schulman wrote:

>> Since several days I try to debug GNU screen within Windows XP's cygwin
>> environment - without any success. I see the start screen, which reminds
>> me of the license stoff, skip that, and the Terminal-screen stays black.
> 
> You mean completely black?  No command prompt?  Without any customization (i.e.
> ~/.screenrc), after you start you should get a single command shell with the
> usual prompt.[snip]

The default Cygwin bash prompt blocks screen, doesn't it?

You have to change PS1 to use screen.
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R.Berber


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