#905: WinGrass: include patched msys.bat in the WinGrass-Installer
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Reporter: hellik | Owner: grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Packaging | Version: svn-develbranch6
Resolution: fixed | Keywords: wingrass, msys
Platform: MSWindows Vista | Cpu: Unspecified
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Comment (by glynn):
Replying to [comment:4 hamish]:
> > The default shell on Windows should be %COMSPEC% or cmd.exe. If
> > you want to offer bash as an alternative, run it in a Windows
> > console, not the brain-dead rxvt port which doesn't work with
> > anything (mostly because it's not a tty according to isatty()).
>
> accckk... I'll take a brain-dead rxvt over a fully functional
> cmd.exe box any day. If only because you can resize to something
> other than 80 columns on a modern widescreen LCD.
The console isn't limited to 80 columns; that restriction only applied to
the DOS-based branch (95/98/ME), not to NT/2K/XP. From the Window menu (
Alt-Space), select Properties, then the Layout tab: there are controls to
change the width.
> Examples in the help pages work, it's rather useful, ...
However, it's not a tty, so trying to use python, wish, gdb, etc
interactively doesn't work as expected. Also, rxvt seems to have a roughly
50% chance of crashing every time you try to paste text into it.
> anyway, the intaller gives 3 menu items/icons: with no terminal,
> with a cmd.exe terminal, and with the MSys terminal.
Don't conflate console/rxvt with cmd.exe/bash; either shell can be run in
either terminal emulator. If you want a bash option, bash-in-console is
somewhat more robust than bash-in-rxvt.
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