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Re: Simple question
Matthew Sundling wrote:
>
> Sorry for the simple question:
>
> Roughly a year ago, I had installed seemingly two separate cygnus
> products both claiming to be cygwin. One being installed in
> c:\cygwin and acting and feeling like an alternative to a regular
> 'dos prompt' window. The other was installed under c:\program
> files\<blah..> and when executed ran like an xterm box from some
> odd xwindow system (window title = cygwin b20.1).
>
> Now I recently installed cygwin (wonderful program) but I cannot
> find any way to make my shell act more like an xterm box rather
> than a 'dos prompt' window. And I cannot locate that separate
> form of cygwin that seemed more 'windows' based. Primarily I am
> interested in the ability to scroll back through the output
> history of the shell. I really don't care how I can do this, but
> I would like to do it.
>
> Is there anyway I can obtain that other 'mystery' proram I had
> originally on my machine? Can I configure cygwin to act more
> like an xterm box? Can I scroll in a regular cygwin window
> though the output history? Am I missing something really simple
> here?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> Matt Sundling
>
May be you have had installed rxvt - an xterm like console application
that can run a bash shell.
It's not a separate Cygwin Version, its only one application.
can be started from the desktop and does need an X-server.
http://www.io.com/~bub/rxvt.html
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with best regards / mit freundlichen Grüßen
Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
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