original cygwin console?

Thomas Dickey dickey@his.com
Sat Dec 3 14:31:00 GMT 2011


On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:44:59AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:30:06PM -0500, wxie wrote:
> >The new cygwin console use mintty. Is it still possible to change back 
> >to the orignal console?
> 
> Wrong mailing list but, there was no "cygwin console".  That's just a
> standard Windows console running bash.

agree "wrong mailing list"

disagree on the followup comment: a standard Windows console provides
a way to implement a simple terminal emulator, but the functionality which
wxie appears to refer to was the implementation provided by Cygwin.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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