console vs pty (was: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc.)

2009-01-14 Thread Andy Koppe
Chuck Wilson wrote: full screen or DOS is a red herring. Any program that does something like the following, if compiled as a native program, won't work in rxvt (or MinTTY, or cygwin/cmd-shell-with-CYGWIN=tty): #include stdio.h main() { int c; while ((c = getc(stdin)) != EOF) fputc(c,

Re: console vs pty (was: Re: First Pass at mintty documentation; etc.)

2009-01-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 05:44:09AM +, Andy Koppe wrote: Chuck Wilson wrote: full screen or DOS is a red herring. Any program that does something like the following, if compiled as a native program, won't work in rxvt (or MinTTY, or cygwin/cmd-shell-with-CYGWIN=tty): #include stdio.h main()