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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:07:58 +0100 (MET)
From: "[mn]" <svartsjel AT gmx DOT net>
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Subject: Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:10:14 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default installed
terminal
> emulator instead of the DOS box?  I can't imagine any Win9x user could
possibly
> complain, and any NT+ user that would is simply misguided ;-).
No, you cannot claim that. rxvt still behaves strangely in some ways when
being executed in Windows XP, for instance because of an annoying ClearType
incompatibility. I do not know whether this grave bug has been fixed in the
meantime, I'm still using the 1.3.13-2 release. But I strongly believe that the
problem still persists.
I hope that in one upcoming release (btw, still within this year?) the
ClearType problem will be fixed at last, as the workaround discussed here earlier
is nothing but a lame temporary solution. For example "ls --color | less"
will make your output (still) a mess...
At the momentary state, I think rxvt's regrettably too buggy for becoming
Cygwin's default installed terminal.

[mn]

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