Re: [Mingw-users] mShell: mSys spawning system

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Julien Lecomte <ju...@fa...>:

> On 09/03/2006 15:41, Keith MARSHALL wrote:
>> Chris Sutcliffe wrote, quoting Greg Chicares:
>> [concerning design goals for Julien Lecomte's mShell project]
>>>> An mdi interface would be very handy.
>>
>> Sure would.  If you can sidestep all the rxvt pty issues, Julien,
>> and make it work like KDE's Konsole, this will be a real winner!
>
> The current problem with msys ptys is that they haven't the maturity 
> of cygwin's ptys; more info towards the bottom of this email.
>

Uhm, as of about six months or so ago the problems still existed in 
Cygwin.  I haven't given a try recently.  But ``rxvt -e 
/cygdrive/c/windows/system32/ftp.exe'' should give it a good test.


Earnie Boyd

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