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Re: rxvt and command prompt
You'll likely need to look at the source to answer that one.
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At 03:24 PM 12/23/2001, Robert White wrote:
>Christopher
>
>Thanks for replying.
>
>Can you elaborate please?
>
>Is there a way I can get isql to recognise rxvt's pyts?
>
>Thanks
>
>Rob
>
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:57:04AM +0000, Robert White wrote:
> > >All
> > >
> > >I have a problem using rxvt on the Windows 98 platform. I use rxvt over
> > >the command prompt because it gives me a useful scrollback facility.
> > >
> > >I do a lot of database administration on SYBASE and Microsoft servers,
> > >and these come bundled with a utility called isql.
> > >
> > >The problem I have is in the way this application works with rxvt.
> > >Usually when you open an isql session you get a prompt like
> > >
> > >1>
> > >
> > >However on rxvt, this is not the case, you get nothing. Although if you
> > >run a command the results are returned, but without the prompt again.
> > >
> > >This is not due to the cygwin environment, because if I run cygwin in a
> > >command shell, isql works fine.
> >
> > This is an incorrect assumption. rxvt is using ptys. Obviously isql
> > isn't recognizing cygwin's ptys.
> >
> > cgf
> >
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