mintty/Windows interoperability (was: Re: default terminal)

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Mon Jun 7 18:33:00 GMT 2010


On 2 June 2010 22:01, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that everyone here knows that ptys don't work well with
> all DOS applications.

PuTTYcyg author Mark Edgar points out a rather simple workaround for
this that hadn't occurred to me before: invoke the problematic
application through 'cygstart', which starts it in a new console
window.

Andy



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