rxvt and command prompt
Robert White
Robert.White@morganstanley.com
Sun Dec 23 14:18:00 GMT 2001
Christopher
Thanks for replying.
Can you elaborate please?
Is there a way I can get isql to recognise rxvt's pyts?
Thanks
Rob
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:57:04AM +0000, Robert White wrote:
> >All
> >
> >I have a problem using rxvt on the Windows 98 platform. I use rxvt over
> >the command prompt because it gives me a useful scrollback facility.
> >
> >I do a lot of database administration on SYBASE and Microsoft servers,
> >and these come bundled with a utility called isql.
> >
> >The problem I have is in the way this application works with rxvt.
> >Usually when you open an isql session you get a prompt like
> >
> >1>
> >
> >However on rxvt, this is not the case, you get nothing. Although if you
> >run a command the results are returned, but without the prompt again.
> >
> >This is not due to the cygwin environment, because if I run cygwin in a
> >command shell, isql works fine.
>
> This is an incorrect assumption. rxvt is using ptys. Obviously isql
> isn't recognizing cygwin's ptys.
>
> cgf
>
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