Re: [Mingw-users] "windows console" only vs cygwin ssh & msys compatible console

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2009-03-28 01:53Z, Thomas Stover wrote:
> So, at least in the past, many console programs would only work 
> correctly inside a cmd.exe windows displayed in a gui session. While 
> others work fine from the msys console, cygwin console, spawned from 
> cygwin ssh, gnu screen for cygwin, etc. Additionally a large subset of 
> those (perhapses all) work in both console "styles". My question is, 
> does anyone know of some notes, the secrete knowledge, or what ever that 
> makes these distinctions? Obviously using memory mapped buffer / DOS 
> style and termcap style operations will yield their logical 
> consequences, but I'm talking about just plain stdio and friends. I'm 
> not even going to mention the word unicode - well at least not in my head.

Here's an example of a search that turns up a few messages
that may help:

http://search.gmane.org/?query=rxvt+buffered&group=gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys

...which probably leads to better keywords (e.g., "PTY") for
a more refined search. For stdio etc., I flush every stream
explicitly when exiting a program.