On 5/30/06, Christopher Faylor <me@xxxxxx> wrote:
>froze afterwards anyway, as "wc" or "perl" did. Besides, it the >command often freezes that poor imitation of xterm windows has. I assume that "the poor imitation of xterm" is referring to cygwin's xterm here. It's really too bad that you can't get into the mindset of reporting problems to the cygwin mailing list when you notice them.
Actually, I was referring to windows console. And no, I don't think you could do something about it. But honestly, I don't think it's worth supporting windows in general and cygwin in particular. And before anyone (again) asks why am _I_ doing it: I'd have to do my job with Perforce otherwise (as if windows wasn't bad enough...)
I can't comment on the proposed patch since, AFAIK, using cat, wc, and (cygwin's) perl should all work just fine but I don't think it is ever correct to complain about a platform in released software.
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