BUG Report: rlwrap + cygwin (dll) + Windows 10

[Takashi Yano]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 20:05:05 +0000 (UTC)
Alberto Moral Beneitez via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Hi, everybody
> First of all, this is my first bug report, so I don't know if I am doing correctly... I don't know if one must be registered to summit this type of repport. And be patient with my English.
> 
> The problem is that rlwrap has stopped working in combination with:   
>    - Windows 10 (I use version 2004, compilation 19041.685, Spanish). It still works in Windows 8.1 and previous   
> 
>    - rlwrap 0.37-1
>    - cygwin 3.1.7-1 (Unix emulation engine). The last version that works in WIndows 10 is 3.0.7-1.   
> 
>    - any DOS/Windows command line application (as Oracle sqlplus, Dimensions dmcli, or even Windows cmd)
> 
> For example, you can try with DOS/Windows cmd: 
> 
>     rlwrap cmd
> It clears the screen and does not work.
> As I've said, it works with:   
>    -  previous versions of Windows (8.1, 7)    
> 
>    - versions 3.0.7-1 or previous of the cygwin package.
>    - of course, with cygwin interactive commands (the problem only appears with DOS/Windows command line apps)
> 
> Thanks in advance for your great job (I use cygwin for a long time and is an essential part in the Windows computers I use).

Please try:
env CYGWIN=disable_pcon rlwrap cmd

Also, you can use alias like:
alias rlwrap="env CYGWIN=disable_pcon rlwrap"

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>