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MinTTY & PuTTYcyg (was: Re: rxvt slow to get the prompt ...)
- From: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:18:48 +0100
- Subject: MinTTY & PuTTYcyg (was: Re: rxvt slow to get the prompt ...)
2009/8/15 Morgan Gangwere:
> I realize MinTTY is a fork of PuTTYCyg
It's not. It's a much modified fork of PuTTY's terminal emulation and
Windows frontend parts, but it uses a different approach from PuTTYcyg
for connecting to Cygwin. PuTTYcyg invokes a separate helper process
that links to the Cygwin DLL, whereas MinTTY is itself a Cygwin app.
Andy
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