MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 04:32:40PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
>> Later, if there is enough demand (complaints?) I can look at creating 
>> rxvt-W (with an alternate XAPPRES name) that is windows-only (maybe with 
>> the external libW11, maybe just like at present with the builtin libW11) 
>> -- but no split-personality. 
> How about creating a rxvt-W that uses Window's style console I/O instead of 
> a pty? (I have no idea of how difficult or simple that might be).

If it was even moderately difficult I would have just implemented ptys
using console I/O long ago.  Microsoft doesn't want you to use consoles
for much and it shows.

cgf

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