Disappearing rxvt Windows -- can anyone else duplicate this problem?

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Mon Aug 27 22:10:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:20:04PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Earnie,
>
>On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 05:13:48PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> You know about the -tn switch to rxvt don't you?
>
>Yes, but you are missing the point which is the following bash construct:
>
>    term=$(cat $TERMFILE)
>
>causes problems for Cygwin -- not how I choose to set my TERM variable.

I'm sorry to say that I can't duplicate this.

I put the above, and nothing but the above in my .bash_profile and rxvt
still operates properly.

cgf



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