#1891: wingrass: background dosbox from regular wxgui startup ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: 6.4.3 Component: Default | Version: svn-releasebranch64 Keywords: wingrass | Platform: MSWindows 7 Cpu: x86-64 | ----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
Comment(by glynn): Replying to [comment:29 hamish]: > > FWIW, MSYS uses (since 2009.03.17) by default sh, not rxvt. Only the ancient > > msys.bat in GRASS 6 uses rxvt by default. The MSYS console in GRASS 7 uses sh. > > ... rxvt is the xterm-alike window-frame, sh is the Bourne shell (#!/bin/sh, in the case of MSys "symlinked" to bash.exe), right? Right. bash.exe (aka sh.exe aka /bin/sh) and cmd.exe are shells: programs which read commands from stdin and execute them. rxvt and "the console window" (conhost.exe) are terminal emulators. The two are orthogonal: you can run either shell in either terminal emulator. We should offer a choice of shell: bash is more functional, but there's no reason to expect Windows users to be familiar with it. There's no reason to offer a choice of terminal emulator; the one which is built into Windows is more robust and more functional (apart from anything else, programs will actually recognise it as a terminal; the isatty() function returns true for the built-in console window and false for anything else, including rxvt). -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1891#comment:31> GRASS GIS <http://grass.osgeo.org> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev