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From: Eric Lilja <mindcooler AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: MySQL client, prompt, redux
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:08:08 +0200
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On 2010-04-07 01:06, Tim McDaniel wrote:
>  From Google searches and some experience, it appears that it's a
> long-standing situation that, if you run the mysql.exe client program
> under mintty or rxvt from Cygwin, then mysql figures that it's not on
> an interactive terminal and therefore does not prompt. Is there yet
> any workaround other than simply using cmd.exe instead? (In mintty,
> BTW, "cmd /c mysql ..." doesn't prompt, presumably for the same reason
> that mysql alone doesn't prompt.)
>

When I run cygwin inside a TakeCommand shell, I do get a working mysql 
client program. You might want to check it out (it's a commercial app, 
however), see http://jpsoft.com/
Also, I see that the just released beta of MySQL Workbench has a proper 
command interpreter now, another option you might be interested in.

- Eric Lilja


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