Re: MySQL client, prompt, redux

2010-04-08 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net was heard to say: What do you mean by local server? If you mean a Win32-native server, that case is clearly noted in the mysql Cygwin README. If you mean the mysqld which is provided by the Ports package, further discussion thereof would

Re: MySQL client, prompt, redux

2010-04-07 Thread Eric Lilja
On 2010-04-07 01:06, Tim McDaniel wrote: From Google searches and some experience, it appears that it's a long-standing situation that, if you run the mysql.exe client program under mintty or rxvt from Cygwin, then mysql figures that it's not on an interactive terminal and therefore does not

Re: MySQL client, prompt, redux

2010-04-07 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net was heard to say: real Windows console which mintty and rxvt are unable to provide. If there is no mysql package in the Cygwin repository, have you tried to see if Cygwin Ports has a Cygwin-native build which will work for you? This is just to confirm, for the

Re: MySQL client, prompt, redux

2010-04-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2010-04-07 09:24, Markus Hoenicka wrote: This is just to confirm, for the sake of the archive's completeness, that Cygwin Ports has builds, or patch sets if you prefer to build them from scratch, and that these Cygwin builds provide a working command prompt. The only downside is that I don't

MySQL client, prompt, redux

2010-04-06 Thread Tim McDaniel
From Google searches and some experience, it appears that it's a long-standing situation that, if you run the mysql.exe client program under mintty or rxvt from Cygwin, then mysql figures that it's not on an interactive terminal and therefore does not prompt. Is there yet any workaround other

Re: MySQL client, prompt, redux

2010-04-06 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Tim McDaniel wrote: From Google searches and some experience, it appears that it's a long-standing situation that, if you run the mysql.exe client program under mintty or rxvt from Cygwin, then mysql figures that it's not on an interactive terminal and therefore does not prompt. Is there yet

Re: MySQL client, prompt, redux

2010-04-06 Thread Andy Koppe
Jeremy Bopp: Tim McDaniel wrote:  From Google searches and some experience, it appears that it's a long-standing situation that, if you run the mysql.exe client program under mintty or rxvt from Cygwin, then mysql figures that it's not on an interactive terminal and therefore does not prompt.