Console anyone ?

Benjamin Riefenstahl Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de
Wed May 21 18:55:00 GMT 2003


Hi Igor,


Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> writes:

> It seems that some programs (in particular, "net" in Win2k) have a
> problem with xterms -- they would still pop up a new console, but
> only when writing to stderr!  When writing to stdout, this doesn't
> happen.  To reproduce, try "net help" and "net use" -- the first
> will pop up a console, the second won't.

I can't reproduce that here, both commands just produce text in a
local xterm, no console is popping up.  I'm running W2K/SP3, recent
XFree86, "CYGWIN=binmode nontsec".


so long, benny



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