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Re: using rxvt with other shells
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:26:41 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: using rxvt with other shells
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Karl North wrote:
> Has anyone out there ever used the MKS Korn shell or any other
> non-BASH shell in the RXVT terminal emulator on Windows 2000?
>
> Mine seems to _work_ fine, ie. commands work and output from both
> intenal and external commands is displayed fine, but I can't get
> the shell to show me a prompt.
>
> Any help (advice, tricks, links to web info.) will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanx,
> K. North
Karl,
It's hard to do this with as little information as you provided, but, as a
hint, you set the prompt in the shell's ${SHELL}rc file (read the man/info
page for the shell, especially the initialization section). See
/etc/profile.default for examples.
FYI, rxvt works for me with sh (ash), tcsh, and ksh (PDksh), both using
the -e option and making the shell the default in /etc/passwd, and shows
the prompt just fine.
> begin 666 winmail.dat
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> [snip]
> `
> end
Umm, *what* is *that*?
Igor
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