rxvt as replacement for windows terminal

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Christoffer Gurell wrote:
> I want to use rxvt shipped with cygwin as a replacement for the windows
> crappy terminal which cygwin uses as default. 
> The problem is that native windows binaries like edit.com or python for
> windows does not work in rxvt. The terminal just hangs up. 
> Is there a solution for this or what is the problem?

Windows programs don't understand Cygwin ttys.  The workarounds are:

   - Don't use Windows programs with rxvt.
   - Go back to using cmd.exe (without 'tty' set in your CYGWIN environment
     variable) if you must use Windows programs.

You can find plenty of discussion about this issue in the email archives if
you're interested in further info.

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