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

[Sycotic Smith]

Just for a little background:

Windows 9x/ME uses the standard (or not-so standard) command.com from a version of MS-DOS.
Windows NT/2000/XP uses cmd.com, which is a 'modified' version that is 'supposedly' better than the older, legacy MS-DOS based version. Hopefully this sheds a bit of light why the text-output would slow a Win9x/ME system. 

My $0.02 USD, if it don't work, try something else, like that ReactOS one...

/S. Smith

----- Original Message -----
From: Békési Gábor <gbe at nmc-m.dtag.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:50:13 +0100
To: Win32/CygWin porting <mplayer-cygwin at mplayerhq.hu>
Subject: Re: [MPlayer-cygwin]Re:	Alternativterminal/CMD/Command.com	forWindows98

> Win2K + standard CygWin environment.
>  I don't know how it behaves on Win98. 
> But here I use it as my default prompt.
> 
> B[
> 
> Stefan Gürtler wrote:
> 
> >----- Original Message -----
> >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
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>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).
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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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