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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10
- From: lars at lamasti dot net (Lars Bjørndal)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:45:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10
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Hi
[Corinna Vinschen]
> On Dec 11 21:32, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen, le Thu 08 Dec 2011 09:47:45 +0100, a écrit :
>> > Too bad. In that case, Samuel, can you please have a closer look to
>> > see what broke brltty?
>>
>> The switch to mintty, simply. Brltty uses ReadConsoleOutputCharacter()
>> to get the text from consoles, I bet mintty does not implement this.
>> Lars thus needs cygwin to be able to run from a standard windows console
>> too.
>
> Lars wrote in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00124.html
> that he always starts Cygwin from cmd.exe.
Yes, right. After starting Cygwin, I run BRLTTY to fire up my braille
display. Do you plan to drop Cygwin's support for running under CMD?
I don't hope so.
Regards,
Lars
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