Re: rxvt ctrl-c killing process

2010-01-19 Thread David Smiley @MITRE.org
: David Smiley: I have been fed-up with the default GUI shell on Cygwin, being used to the great Terminal that comes with Mac OS X.  Some googling around uncovered that I should try rxvt.  My experience with rxvt is pretty good, after reading online some basic configuration tips.  But unfortunately

rxvt ctrl-c killing process

2010-01-18 Thread David Smiley @MITRE.org
find a resolution. ~ David Smiley -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/rxvt-ctrl-c-killing-process-tp27221260p27221260.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread David Smiley
because the case isn't right. *Even if* Windows user names are case sensitive and so there is a difference between DSMILEY and dsmiley (are they?, I don't know) I think $USER should be made to be all lower-case to be consistent with unix environments. ~ David Smiley -- View this message in context

Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread David Smiley
I know this is clearly a minor problem I am reporting, but a problem nonetheless. Ismael Valladolid Torres-4 wrote: David Smiley escribe: I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my username in upper-case. So it is DSMILEY. On unix based hosts I log

RE: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread David Smiley
) as upper case. Yet in CYGWIN, $USER=DSMILEY. If domain logins are case *in*sensitive (appears likely), then it would seem to me that it should be normalized to lower-case for use in CYGWIN. Dave Korn wrote: On 09 January 2007 16:25, David Smiley wrote: I am new to Cygwin. I noticed