Max Bowsher wrote: > Richard H. Broberg wrote: >> In the meantime I'll >> happily use rxvt in place of bash, since it does what I need. > > You are confused. > > rxvt is a terminal. > bash is a shell.
Looked at another way: rxvt is a GUI application. bash is a console application. When bash runs, Windows allocates a console. When rxvt runs, Windows doesn't allocate a console. Very different behaviors result. -- Francis Litterio [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://world.std.com/~franl/ GPG and PGP public keys available on keyservers. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/