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Re: MySQL client, prompt, redux


Tim McDaniel wrote:
>  From Google searches and some experience, it appears that it's a
> long-standing situation that, if you run the mysql.exe client program
> under mintty or rxvt from Cygwin, then mysql figures that it's not on
> an interactive terminal and therefore does not prompt.  Is there yet
> any workaround other than simply using cmd.exe instead?  (In mintty,
> BTW, "cmd /c mysql ..." doesn't prompt, presumably for the same reason
> that mysql alone doesn't prompt.)

If you are using the Windows-native build of the mysql client, then
there is no way to fix this.  That build of the client expects to have a
real Windows console which mintty and rxvt are unable to provide.  If
there is no mysql package in the Cygwin repository, have you tried to
see if Cygwin Ports has a Cygwin-native build which will work for you?

-Jeremy

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