From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27239 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2011 18:30:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 27227 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Dec 2011 18:30:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_WX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:30:24 +0000 Received: from pool-173-76-42-41.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.76.42.41] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RWuLv-000C2F-Ni for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:30:23 +0000 Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629AB13C0D3 for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:30:23 -0500 (EST) X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18oAMPqwy42pKyJfoCArBvA Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:12:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: original cygwin console? Message-ID: <20111203183023.GE10024@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <4D2F339F.5030109@purdue.edu> <4ED989AE.4040006@purdue.edu> <20111203064459.GB10024@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20111203142338.GA7462@debian50-32.invisible-island.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111203142338.GA7462@debian50-32.invisible-island.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:23:38AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: >On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:44:59AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:30:06PM -0500, wxie wrote: >> >The new cygwin console use mintty. Is it still possible to change back >> >to the orignal console? >> >> Wrong mailing list but, there was no "cygwin console". That's just a >> standard Windows console running bash. > >agree "wrong mailing list" > >disagree on the followup comment: a standard Windows console provides a >way to implement a simple terminal emulator, but the functionality >which wxie appears to refer to was the implementation provided by >Cygwin. There is no "implementation" beyond running bash, i.e.: c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i Put that in a shortcut or, if you need to set some environment variables, create a .bat file. Many people seem to think that what they got when they clicked on the Cygwin icon was some sort of "Cygwin terminal" because they were apparently unfamilar with the Windows console as seen in good-old "CMD.EXE". They apparently had never seen that white-on-black box on their screen before and thought that Cygwin created it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/