Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-25 Thread Ronald Fischer
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:15 -0400, Eliot Moss m...@cs.umass.edu wrote: Just a quick thought, but I think you may want to run rlwrap within rxvt, something like: rxvt rlwrap cmd.exe Thanks a lot! Indeed, rxvt -e rlwrap cmd Ronald -- Ronald Fischer rona...@eml.cc + If a packet hits a

Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-25 Thread Ronald Fischer
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:56 -0400, Eliot Moss m...@cs.umass.edu wrote: On 8/24/2011 11:52 AM, Ronald of Steiermark wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:39 -0700, Andrew DeFariaand...@defaria.com wrote: For instance, to test the cruel BAT files which we are going to deliver. You can run .bat

Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-25 Thread Ronald of Steiermark
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:03 -0700, Andrew DeFaria and...@defaria.com wrote: On 08/24/11 08:52, Ronald of Steiermark wrote: Yep, though right now I'm fancying zsh. Where it makes sense, it's always good to go with what a lot of people go with. How many Solaris machines have zsh installed? All

Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/25/2011 12:53 AM, Ronald of Steiermark wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:03 -0700, Andrew DeFariaand...@defaria.com wrote: On 08/24/11 08:52, Ronald of Steiermark wrote: Yep, though right now I'm fancying zsh. Where it makes sense, it's always good to go with what a lot of people go with.

Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/25/2011 12:51 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:56 -0400, Eliot Mossm...@cs.umass.edu wrote: On 8/24/2011 11:52 AM, Ronald of Steiermark wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:39 -0700, Andrew DeFariaand...@defaria.com wrote: For instance, to test the cruel BAT files which we are

Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-24 Thread Ronald Fischer
I would like to run cmd.exe within a rxvt terminal on Windows 7. Problem is that calling the cmd.exe command history does not work (it seems that the cursor keys are not passed properly to cmd.exe). In one thread in this mailing list, it was recommended to wrap the rxvt call by rlwrap:

Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-24 Thread Eliot Moss
Just a quick thought, but I think you may want to run rlwrap within rxvt, something like: rxvt rlwrap cmd.exe but maybe with some flags, etc. Regards -- ELiot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-24 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/24/2011 11:07 AM, Ronald Fischer wrote: I would like to run cmd.exe within a rxvt terminal rlwrap is not the problem. Running 'cmd.exe' within rxvt is not possible; cmd.exe expects direct access to the console host (csrss on WinVista-; conhost.exe on Win7+). That is, it expects that

Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 08/24/11 08:07, Ronald Fischer wrote: I would like to run cmd.exe within a rxvt terminal on Windows 7. My question is why? Why do you want to run cmd.exe? Problem is that calling the cmd.exe command history does not work (it seems that the cursor keys are not passed properly to cmd.exe).

Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-24 Thread Ronald of Steiermark
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:39 -0700, Andrew DeFaria and...@defaria.com wrote: I would like to run cmd.exe within a rxvt terminal on Windows 7. My question is why? Why do you want to run cmd.exe? For instance, to test the cruel BAT files which we are going to deliver. I also find the cmd shell

Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-24 Thread Eliot Moss
On 8/24/2011 11:52 AM, Ronald of Steiermark wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:39 -0700, Andrew DeFariaand...@defaria.com wrote: For instance, to test the cruel BAT files which we are going to deliver. You can run .bat files from bash and other Cygwin shells. You can also invoke DOS / Windows

Re: Does not work well: rlwrap + rxvt + cmd

2011-08-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 08/24/11 08:52, Ronald of Steiermark wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:39 -0700, Andrew DeFariaand...@defaria.com wrote: I would like to run cmd.exe within a rxvt terminal on Windows 7. My question is why? Why do you want to run cmd.exe? For instance, to test the cruel BAT files which we are