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Re: Couple of nits about Cygwin
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Couple of nits about Cygwin
- From: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB at scitechsoft dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:05:07 -0800
- Organization: SciTech Software, Inc.
- References: <200007251049870.SM00160@KENDALLB>
DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:
> > 1. When you start a bash shell, the cursor flashes at a reasonable
> > rate, but when you start typing it generally disappears from view.
>
> This has always bothered me, but I always thought it was NT doing
> it. Testing in the MS-DOS window shows that it's not NT. Sigh.
No, it is definately not NT. If I telnet from a regular command
prompt to a Linux box the cursor works fine. However telnetting from
a bash shell has the same problem as the bash shell itself.
Also I noticed that the cursor block is slightly larger than a
regular NT command prompt window.
Any ideas about what would be causing this? I assume that bash goes
through the curses library to access the NT console, so perhaps this
is a bug in the NT version of curses? That might be an easy place to
try and track this down...
Regards,
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