RE: Why rxvt?

2002-09-20 Thread Zieg, Mark

 Can anyone tell me what advantages this might have for running bash,
 compared to the usual Windows command line window? 

The ability to resize the window arbitrarily is the deal-breaker for me.

I've started a Cygwin FAQ for my workgroup.  You might find this entry worth
trying:

http://www.zieg.com/faqs/unix/#cygwin_rxvt

(caveat: I am very much a Cygwin novice.  This is a novice FAQ for novices.)

-Mark Z

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Why rxvt?

2002-09-19 Thread Paul D. DeRocco

Can anyone tell me what advantages this might have for running bash,
compared to the usual Windows command line window? I noticed in the readme
that rxvt can leave child processes running if you close the window, which
is scary since that's how I habitually terminate a command line session.

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Re: Why rxvt?

2002-09-19 Thread Michael A Chase

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:17:45 -0700 Paul D. DeRocco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Can anyone tell me what advantages this might have for running bash,
 compared to the usual Windows command line window? I noticed in the readme
 that rxvt can leave child processes running if you close the window, which
 is scary since that's how I habitually terminate a command line session.

Don't do that.  It's best to shut down any program as gracefully as it can.
For command line windows, that is by using the appropriate exit command.

Rxvt you gives better control over the window, especially in Win9x,
keyboard, cut-and-paste, scrollbars, resizing, fonts, and colors in
particular.

In WinNT and it's descendents, I've been perfectly happy using the console
window though in WinXP I've found it useful to call bash.exe directly
rather than via cygwin.bat to avoid having cmd.exe respond on exit to any
Ctrl-C's I've pressed during the session.

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