sysvinit for cygwin?

Michael A Chase mchase@ix.netcom.com
Sat Sep 28 01:55:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:44:51 -0300 Ariel Manzur <punto@juegosonline.com> wrote:

> is there a 'sysvinit' package for cygwin? I'm only interested in being able 
> to switch consoles using alt-f1 to 6, I understand the program 'init' is 
> the one that manages that. Is there at least a 'clon' of that for cygwin?

There isn't, but there wouldn't be much point.  Cygwin console windows are
Windows windows (usually either cmd.exe or rxvt.exe) so you can switch
between them using Alt-TAB.

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