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

[Brian D. <br...@de...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:

> 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.

Yes, that's why you install the inetutils package and use the Cygwin
version of /bin/ftp.  <g>  But yes, the problem with interacting with
pure windows console applications will always exist when emulating ptys
with pipes.

Brian