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Re: original cygwin console?

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:23:38 -0500
Subject: Re: original cygwin console?
References: <4D2F339F.5030109@purdue.edu> <4ED989AE.4040006@purdue.edu> <20111203064459.GB10024@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-to: dickey at his dot com
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:44:59AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:30:06PM -0500, wxie wrote:
> >The new cygwin console use mintty. Is it still possible to change back 
> >to the orignal console?
> 
> Wrong mailing list but, there was no "cygwin console".  That's just a
> standard Windows console running bash.

agree "wrong mailing list"

disagree on the followup comment: a standard Windows console provides
a way to implement a simple terminal emulator, but the functionality which
wxie appears to refer to was the implementation provided by Cygwin.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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