On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 03:18:17PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >On 6/2/2010 3:01 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I'm pretty sure that everyone here knows that ptys don't work well with >>all DOS applications. I mentioned it when I first proposed making >>mintty the default. I'm not opposed to two desktop icons but I still >>think we would be generally better off even if we only had one mintty >>link in terms of end-user confusion. >> >>It could be that there is an application used by thousands that works >>well in the console window while failing miserably under a tty/pty. > >Does mintty currently work around any such problems?
I really don't understand the question in light of the observations that there will be problems with some MS-DOS applications if we switch to mintty because of cygwin's pty implementation. cgf
