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Re: mintty screen size problem


On 11 June 2010 01:31, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On 6/10/2010 1:21 PM, Steven Woody wrote:
>>
>> On 11 June 2010 01:18, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
>> <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> ?wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6/10/2010 1:09 PM, Steven Woody wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10 June 2010 13:27, Andy Koppe<andy.koppe@gmail.com> ? ?wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>> The workaround is to invoke such programs through 'cygstart'.
>>>>> Alternatively, the 'conin' wrapper mentioned in that thread should
>>>>> work fairly well for Python.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. ?'cygstart' works, but I have to type the full path of the
>>>> program that I want to run as a parameter to 'cygstart'.
>>>
>>> You can use 'which' to get the full path name, as long as the target is
>>> in
>>> the path.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I can. Just feel it's not easy to use (have to type many keys).
>> On the other hand, cygstart always open another window to run the
>> program, it's not so decent.
>
> That's because the Windows program you're trying to use doesn't understand
> ptys and buffers its output as a result. ?If you want to work around this
> incompatibility, you need a console, not a tty. ?'cygstart' will open a
> console for any program that needs one.
>
> At this point, some inconvenience is necessary to get the output you expect
> when you expect it. ?If you're curious to learn more, you can check out the
> email archives where this has been discussed allot.

Understand, thanks for the explanation.  Just thinking for the moment
that why not we cannot have a good terminal emulator not based on pty.
.
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> A: Yes.
>>
>> Q: Are you sure?
>>>
>>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>>>
>>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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