Just a quick thought, but I think you may want to run rlwrap within rxvt, something like: rxvt rlwrap cmd.exe but maybe with some flags, etc. Regards -- ELiot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple