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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:02:18 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin console
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:29:09PM +0530, Kiran Prakash wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:39:39 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> cygwin's pty emulation does not work with every windows application.  I
>> don't think we should default to using rxvt for this reason.
>
>cygwin's pty emulation doesnt even work with some cygwin apps
>(for example talk, the message telling the user about the talk is 
>swallowed)

Uh.  Yeah.  Right.  Swallowed.  Sure.

cgf

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