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Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)
On May 24 12:18, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 24 May 2011 10:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On May 23 21:14, Andy Koppe wrote:
>
> >> I also think the console's start menu entry in the Cygwin folder
> >> should be kept, perhaps with a new name. "Console" vs "Terminal"?
> >
> > Why?
>
> As a straightforward answer to questions along these lines:
>
> - I loved the old Cygwin Bash Shell with its endearingly quirky
> scrolling and copy'n'paste. Where did it go?
>
> - Mysql/Python/Java/Cmd.exe/other_interactive_non_cygwin_program
> doesn't work properly in this crappy new terminal. Can you make them
> work again please.
FAQ answer: Double-click Cygwin.bat in the Cygwin installation dir.
Sounds sufficiently straightforward to me. Apart from that, keeping
the "Cygwin Bash Shell" menu entry requires another check button in
Setup's "Create Icons" menu. I'd rather avoid that.
Corinna
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