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Re: xterm is a console program?
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 14:32:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: xterm is a console program?
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Jack,
Jack Tanner wrote:
Early Ehlinger wrote:
My question is, why not let xterm be an honest-to-goodness Windows
subsystem
application? A simple WinMain that parses GetCommandLine and calls
main()
would do the trick, I think. Is this something that has been considered
before?
Early,
Perhaps the port of rxvt does something similar to what you're
describing here? You might look at how they manage to run on Windows
natively or under X using a single binary.
-JT
Not bad to mention this, but I think Early is definitely not trying to
convert xterm to a native Windows app. He is simply trying to simply
trying to determine if there is a way to prevent xterm from opening a
command prompt window when it is launched via a shortcut or double-click
in Windows.
For the record: I do not like the rxvt port. It is the ugliest, most
incomplete hack I have ever seen. Yet, it endlessly comes up with
people suggesting that we look at that code for ideas. Let me tell you,
there is nothing in that code that is interesting to us, it is mostly
garbage. Now, with that off my chest, back to our regularly scheduled
programming...
Harold