Hello, On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
> In the latest release of mc, subshell isn't working. Ctrl-O just shows the > background. However, if I build mc myself from the sources, subshell works > fine. [...] > Why is background disabled? And why ncurses instead of S-Lang? Because using the subshell leaves stale subshell processes and each time I start to debug this problem I get nowhere due to lack of time. The problem is pretty complex. Hopefully I'll find the time to find a solution for it. And btw you are wrong - the MC package has subshell support but it is disabled by default. Try `mc --help' . As for slang vs. ncurses - because Cygwin has a working ncurses package that has proven itself over the time. I've compiled and used slang on Cygwin and it seems to work fine but I haven't done any serious testing. Why do you think slang should be used instead of ncurses ? Almost all functionality that is available with slang is also available with ncurses. The only thing that doesn't work currently if MC is build agains slang is the `--color' option. Besides, MC actually uses the curses api to draw the screen - slang is used trough a set of wrappers which emulate the necessary subset of curses calls. -- 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/