From: Daniel Bretoi <lists@...>
Date: 2002-12-09T08:08:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Good windows console?  (was: Buffered output on Windows)

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:20:38PM +0900, Chris Pine wrote:
> So, is there a good Windows console out there?  What are people's favorites?
> I *know* I don't like the standard DOS one.  rxvt is good most of the time,
> but has problems with various things.  Sometimes I run the cygwin port of
> xterm in an xserver, but I don't always like doing it that way.

I'm a little confused of what you're actually looking for. 
It sounds like you're loking for a shell (bash,command.com,cmd.com,
tcsh) ?

rxvt however is a terminal to access a shell. 

explain?

Personally, to do any commandline type work, I ssh using PuTTy
(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) to a UNIX shell of
choice.

db

> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Chris
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <nobu.nokada@softhome.net>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 5:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Buffered output on Windows
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At Sat, 7 Dec 2002 07:41:48 +0900,
> Chris Pine wrote:
> > Well, I'll be damned... you're right!  I was running the program in the
> port
> > of rxvt which comes in the cygwin distribution, but I had good reason
> > (obviously not good enough) to believe that rxvt was not at fault:
> >
> > When I said that the Linux version of ruby was fine, I was running that in
> > the *same* rxvt window!  I just ssh'd over to my linux box and ran it
> there.
> >
> > Why would that be?
> 
> It means rxvt cygwin port is incomplete yet.  It uses a pipe to
> connect child process, so non-cygwin children don't recognize
> it a tty.  This issue is not limited to ruby, for example,
> Borland's tdump tool fails on rxvt too.
> 
> Windows fundamentally doesn't have pseodo tty feature like on
> UNIX but only special "console".  Japanese maintainer of rxvt
> for cygwin at least has noticed this but cannot solve yet.
> 
> --
> Nobu Nakada
> 

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