Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi all, The current Cygwin DLL will freeze an xterm/rxvt when a large amount of data is pasted into it. The problem was alleviated slightly in the newer snapshots of the DLL, by an increase of the buffer size to 64k. There is a fix that apparently allows pastes of any size. A patch has been sub

Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Max Bowsher wrote: Sorry, no. An XP cmd box does everything I need. Rxvt doesn't seem to have any way to let me cut and paste with just the mouse (I only have 2 buttons+scroll on my laptop). On my non laptop 2 button mouse with a scroll, clicking the scroll button pastes. Also Shift-Button 1

Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
[mn] wrote: No, you cannot claim that. rxvt still behaves strangely in some ways when being executed in Windows XP, for instance because of an annoying ClearType incompatibility. I do not know whether this grave bug has been fixed in the meantime, I'm still using the 1.3.13-2 release. But I st

Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't know how often I've expressed my opinion but I am mildly against it. The problem is that cygwin's pty implementation is not perfect. It can't run some native windows programs and it can deadlock occasionally. There are some patches available that potentially solv

Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Max Bowsher
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:10:14 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default >> installed terminal >> emulator instead of the DOS box? I can't imagine any Win9x user >> could possibly >> complain, and any NT+ user that would is simply misguided ;-

Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread [mn]
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:10:14 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default installed terminal > emulator instead of the DOS box? I can't imagine any Win9x user could possibly > complain, and any NT+ user that would is simply misguided ;-). No, you

RE: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 27 Nov 2002, Robert Collins wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:10, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default installed terminal > > emulator instead of the DOS box? I can't imagine any Win9x user could possibly > > complain, and any NT+ user th

Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:04:38PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:10, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >>Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default installed >>terminal emulator instead of the DOS box? I can't imagine any Win9x >>user could possibly complain, and

Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Frank-Michael Moser
I found that the "run" command which comes with Cygwin-XFree is quite useful for launching any shell script with a Windows link without a DOS box flashing. The problem is that it works only when $(cygpath -w /) is in your Windows PATH variable - otherwise it does not find cygwin1.dll. But a sim

Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Michael Schaap
On 27-11-2002 13:04, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:10, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default installed terminal emulator instead of the DOS box? I can't imagine any Win9x user could possibly complain, and any NT+ user that woul

RE: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 19:10, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Are things to the point where we could make rxvt the default installed terminal > emulator instead of the DOS box? I can't imagine any Win9x user could possibly > complain, and any NT+ user that would is simply misguided ;-). Well, it's

Re: How can I avoid using a DOS box??

2002-11-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:01:56PM -0700, Carlos C. Gonzalez wrote: >I have looked all over the place and can't find any information on how to >change from using the DOS box under Windows 98 when running cygwin. > >Would appreciate any insight anyone might have. rxvt -e bash -l cgf -- Please do