Terminal handling with the 990809 snapshot

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Aug 11 12:39:00 GMT 1999


On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 09:09:56PM -0400, Glenn Spell wrote:
>If I log into Cygwin with any shell and immediately issue the
>command "ls --color", I can see the color appear for an instant,
>but then it disappears and everything is black and white. If I
>continue issuing the same command, somewhere around the third to
>the fifth try... the color will "stick".
>
>This behavior started with the 990626 snapshot and continues thru
>the 990809 snapshot.

That's undoubtedly because I backed out the scroll "fixes" that
were submitted for Windows 95.  They caused many problems for
many people but they probably fixed that particular behavior.

cgf


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