Andy Koppe wrote: > Lee D. Rothstein wrote: >> I do lots of bash scripting including Windows/DOS commands, and I >> can think of only one character cell app that ever gave me any >> trouble from rxvt or xterm (whatever that app is -- I think a >> Resource Kit app), I found a work-around and never needed it >> again. > > 'net' is a troublesome command that's been mentioned, although it seems > to be ok for basic stuff. But I guess there might be still be a few DOS > fullscreen apps around. Turbo Pascal perhaps? But yeah, I'd sooner > implement tabs than worry about DOS apps. ;)
"full screen" or "DOS" is a red herring. Any program that does something like the following, if compiled as a native program, won't work in rxvt (or MinTTY, or cygwin/cmd-shell-with-CYGWIN=tty): #include <stdio.h> main() { int c; while ((c = getc(stdin)) != EOF) fputc(c, stdout); } The thing is, THIS program works as part of a pipeline even when compiled as a native program -- but it breaks if you try to use it interactively within rxvt/MinTTY/etc. A cygwin-compiled version works in all cases. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/