Windows ClearCase [Was: Cygwin Visuals]

[Andrew DeFaria]

Gary Johnson wrote:
> Are you using ClearCase on Windows, or just ClearCase on Unix? We use 
> both at work. I found that I couldn't execute "cleartool edcs" in rxvt 
> because cleartool apparently requires a Windows Console. The editor 
> (vim) ran fine, but the screen filled with a bunch of garbage when I 
> closed vim. Are you able to run "cleartool edcs" in rxvt or ssh?
One must remember when using rxvt that it uses ptys. Many Windows 
programs don't understand ptys. Cleartool is one of them. Try just 
typing in cleartool in an rxvt Window. You'll never see the prompt. 
Luckily I, and apparently you, rarely type in cleartool then enter in 
commands. You probably have your ct alias which is common. So then you 
do ct ls or ct lsview or ct checkout or ct co... etc. You then never hit 
the problem with ptys.

ct edcs then introduces the problem because it effectively does:

    $ ct catcs > /tmp/$$
    $ vim /tmp/$$
    $ # check that file has changed and offer to setcs
    $ ct setcs /tmp/$$

So then you could do, roughly, the above (which is what I do) or perhaps 
script it.
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.


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