rxvt and command prompt

rxvt and command prompt

[Robert White]

All

I have a problem using rxvt on the Windows 98 platform. I use rxvt over
the command prompt because it gives me a useful scrollback facility.

I do a lot of database administration on SYBASE and Microsoft servers,
and these come bundled with a utility called isql.

The problem I have is in the way this application works with rxvt.
Usually when you open an isql session you get a prompt like

1>

However on rxvt, this is not the case, you get nothing. Although if you
run a command the results are returned, but without the prompt again.

This is not due to the cygwin environment, because if I run cygwin in a
command shell, isql works fine.

I have heard from a tools developer that isql returns 2 streams, a
message and a result stream, so I figure this must be in someway
connected to the way command shell and rxvt handle standard error, or
something like that in a different manner. I tried running isql with the
2>&1 redirective but to no avail.

I know this must make little sense to people not familiar with the
tools, but I was kind of hoping there would be someone who happened to
have used isql on this list.

Thanks as always in advance for any help, and happy holidays.

Rob


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Re: rxvt and command prompt

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:57:04AM +0000, Robert White wrote:
>All
>
>I have a problem using rxvt on the Windows 98 platform. I use rxvt over
>the command prompt because it gives me a useful scrollback facility.
>
>I do a lot of database administration on SYBASE and Microsoft servers,
>and these come bundled with a utility called isql.
>
>The problem I have is in the way this application works with rxvt.
>Usually when you open an isql session you get a prompt like
>
>1>
>
>However on rxvt, this is not the case, you get nothing. Although if you
>run a command the results are returned, but without the prompt again.
>
>This is not due to the cygwin environment, because if I run cygwin in a
>command shell, isql works fine.

This is an incorrect assumption.  rxvt is using ptys.  Obviously  isql
isn't recognizing cygwin's ptys.

cgf

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Re: rxvt and command prompt

[Robert White]

Christopher

Thanks for replying.

Can you elaborate please?

Is there a way I can get isql to recognise rxvt's pyts?

Thanks

Rob

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:57:04AM +0000, Robert White wrote:
> >All
> >
> >I have a problem using rxvt on the Windows 98 platform. I use rxvt over
> >the command prompt because it gives me a useful scrollback facility.
> >
> >I do a lot of database administration on SYBASE and Microsoft servers,
> >and these come bundled with a utility called isql.
> >
> >The problem I have is in the way this application works with rxvt.
> >Usually when you open an isql session you get a prompt like
> >
> >1>
> >
> >However on rxvt, this is not the case, you get nothing. Although if you
> >run a command the results are returned, but without the prompt again.
> >
> >This is not due to the cygwin environment, because if I run cygwin in a
> >command shell, isql works fine.
>
> This is an incorrect assumption.  rxvt is using ptys.  Obviously  isql
> isn't recognizing cygwin's ptys.
>
> cgf
>
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Re: rxvt and command prompt

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

You'll likely need to look at the source to answer that one.

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At 03:24 PM 12/23/2001, Robert White wrote:
>Christopher
>
>Thanks for replying.
>
>Can you elaborate please?
>
>Is there a way I can get isql to recognise rxvt's pyts?
>
>Thanks
>
>Rob
>
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 09:57:04AM +0000, Robert White wrote:
> > >All
> > >
> > >I have a problem using rxvt on the Windows 98 platform. I use rxvt over
> > >the command prompt because it gives me a useful scrollback facility.
> > >
> > >I do a lot of database administration on SYBASE and Microsoft servers,
> > >and these come bundled with a utility called isql.
> > >
> > >The problem I have is in the way this application works with rxvt.
> > >Usually when you open an isql session you get a prompt like
> > >
> > >1>
> > >
> > >However on rxvt, this is not the case, you get nothing. Although if you
> > >run a command the results are returned, but without the prompt again.
> > >
> > >This is not due to the cygwin environment, because if I run cygwin in a
> > >command shell, isql works fine.
> >
> > This is an incorrect assumption.  rxvt is using ptys.  Obviously  isql
> > isn't recognizing cygwin's ptys.
> >
> > cgf
> >
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RE: rxvt and command prompt

[Steve Jorgensen]

I haven't tried to use rxvt for a while, but last time I did, I was having 
problems with it always being one line behind on output.  I would see all 
the output eventually, but not until the following line was printed.  Could 
this be the same issue?

On Sunday, December 23, 2001 1:57 AM, Robert White 
[SMTP:Robert.White@morganstanley.com] wrote:
> All
>
> I have a problem using rxvt on the Windows 98 platform. I use rxvt over
> the command prompt because it gives me a useful scrollback facility.
>
> I do a lot of database administration on SYBASE and Microsoft servers,
> and these come bundled with a utility called isql.
>
> The problem I have is in the way this application works with rxvt.
> Usually when you open an isql session you get a prompt like
>
> 1>
>
> However on rxvt, this is not the case, you get nothing. Although if you
> run a command the results are returned, but without the prompt again.
>
> This is not due to the cygwin environment, because if I run cygwin in a
> command shell, isql works fine.
>
> I have heard from a tools developer that isql returns 2 streams, a
> message and a result stream, so I figure this must be in someway
> connected to the way command shell and rxvt handle standard error, or
> something like that in a different manner. I tried running isql with the
> 2>&1 redirective but to no avail.
>
> I know this must make little sense to people not familiar with the
> tools, but I was kind of hoping there would be someone who happened to
> have used isql on this list.
>
> Thanks as always in advance for any help, and happy holidays.
>
> Rob
>
>
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