First Pass at mintty documentation; etc.

[Lee D. Rothstein]

Andy Koppe wrote:
> Andy Koppe wrote:
>   
>> Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
>>     
>>> I do lots of bash scripting including Windows/DOS commands, and I
>>> can think of only one character cell app that ever gave me any
>>> trouble from rxvt or xterm (whatever that app is -- I think a
>>> Kit app), I found a work-around and never needed it
>>> again.
>>>       
>> 'net' is a troublesome command that's been mentioned, although it seems
>> to be ok for basic stuff. But I guess there might be still be a few DOS
>> fullscreen apps around. Turbo Pascal perhaps? But yeah, I'd sooner
>> implement tabs than worry about DOS apps. ;)
>>     
>
> "full screen" or "DOS" is a red herring. Any program that does something
> like the following, if compiled as a native program, won't work in rxvt
> (or MinTTY, or cygwin/cmd-shell-with-CYGWIN=tty):
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> main() {
>   int c;
>   while ((c = getc(stdin)) != EOF) fputc(c, stdout);
> }
>
> The thing is, THIS program works as part of a pipeline even when
> compiled as a native program -- but it breaks if you try to use it
> interactively within rxvt/MinTTY/etc.  A cygwin-compiled version works
> in all cases.
>
> --
> Chuck
>
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Nice example! Who is "Chuck"?

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