termcap problem in RXVT?

Neil Zanella nzanella@cs.mun.ca
Mon Mar 18 16:34:00 GMT 2002


I am running Win2k and have always had this rxvt problem.
The other problem is the keyboard arrow for bash command
history do not seem to work either. What happens when you
type "echo $TERM"? Do you get rxvt or something else?

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, BERNDT, JON wrote:

> I have installed CygWin on numerous machines using teh nice setup program at
> cygwin.com. Recently, however, I have installed CygWin on two machines (one
> a W2K machine and the other a Win98SE machine) and when I tried to run rxvt
> I got strange behavior for the prompt. If I bring up a bash shell
> immediately after installing, then type "rxvt" at the bash prompt, this is
> what shows up in the rxvt console:
> 
> --- start ---
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $ 
> --- end ---
> 
> I am at a loss to explain what to do. This has not happened to me in prior
> cygwin installs. I checked the FAQ and the mailing list archives for March,
> but could not find any reference to anything new that should have caused
> this.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
>  <<cygcheck.out>> 
> 


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