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Re: Wrapper for readline
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: Maurício <briqueabraque at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 04:26:58 +0000
- Subject: Re: Wrapper for readline
> I've seen the source package from readline and there's a file under
> examples directory called rlfe.c.
And readline's ./configure; make does not build it, because it is not yet
fully-baked (it is provided more as a starting point for the interested). I
may consider adding it to my readline package distribution if I can ever
get it built, but it is not my highest priority at the moment.
I imagine that is a utility to wrap
> readline to be used with non-readline console programs. Why isn't that
> utility part of cygwin distribution, doesn't it work on Windows?
> Also: I've just installed rlwrap (utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/rlwrap),
> that does exactly that. What should I do to sugest it to be part of
> cygwin distribution?
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Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin readline maintainer
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