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Re: Console on Sourceforge with Cygwin
- From: One Angry User <angry at lusers dot org>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:41:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Console on Sourceforge with Cygwin
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- Reply-to: Blaaab Babble Boogle Bop <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
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On a drizzly Tuesday, the 29th day of August, 2006, Keith Christian's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
> > It's hosted on SourceForge, try the latest v2 beta (not demo!)
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/console
>
> I just downloaded Console Beta 125 - Sorry, a little dense here, how do
> you invoke it from Windows to launch a Cygwin bash shell? Do you have a
> couple of example command lines to use?
>
> Could you provide one example for a user that would start with "Click
> Start/Run and type the following command"
Oh, no, it doesn't work like that. Command-line options are for wimps who
read manpages! Console uses menus! MENUS, man! Now, there's real
configurability!
Besides, why would you want to launch a Cygwin bash shell if you can play
with all those colors for the command prompt?
OAU