[MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Alternativterminal/CMD/Command.com forWindows98

[Békési Gábor]

Win2K + standard CygWin environment.
 I don't know how it behaves on Win98. 
But here I use it as my default prompt.

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Stefan Gürtler wrote:

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>From: "Békési Gábor" <gbe at nmc-m.dtag.de>
>To: "Win32/CygWin porting" <mplayer-cygwin at mplayerhq.hu>
>Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:47 AM
>Subject: Re: [MPlayer-cygwin] Re: Alternativterminal/CMD/Command.com
>forWindows98
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>>Well the windows shell can Do that (see cmd /?). I have also checked
>>this R'OS  shell, but didn't like it.
>>On the other hand I have found, that rxvt is an excelent choice (I love
>>its configurabilty and that You can
>>also resize on width, not just height).
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>As far as i know cmd.exe is part of Win2000 and WinXP (at least i did not
>find
>any cmd.exe  searching my Win98 system). On Win98 there is only command.com
>which is relly very limited. There using ReactOS's cmd.exe really improves
>stuff a lot.
>rxvt is a nice one, too, but on win98 rxvt coming with MSYS seems to utilize
>the
>command.com. Therefore it inherits its slow text output, which makes e.g.
>the use of mplayers "-quiet" option necessary on my PIII-550MHz, or playback
>will not be smooth on most files only because of the text output on the
>console.
>Using ReactOS's cmd.exe omitting -quiet is no porblem!
>Which Version of rxvt do you use?
>
>Stefan
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