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Mintty command line for old time rxvt users
- From: Keith Starsmeare <kstarsmeare at hotmail dot co dot uk>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:23:00 +0100
- Subject: Mintty command line for old time rxvt users
I've been using rxvt with Cygwin for years and I must thank Chuck Wilson and
anyone else that's helped maintain it and the Cygwin as a whole!
I've recently been having trouble with my locales accessing Linux servers
through ssh - gcc errors were coming out with horrible characters, and I'm
sure I got it working once, but I can't remember how I did it! So I thought
I'd finally try minty and it works perfectly - so I guess I'm a convert.
But I've got a question regarding the command line options. I used to have a
bunch of shortcuts to start an rxvt to ssh to my remote servers but it took
some trial and error to get it working so that it is (briefly) a login shell
to get my sshconfig settings. So I've converted from this shortcut:
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e ssh servername
To this:
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe bash --login -c "ssh servername"
Which works, but is a little cumbersome. Am I doing this the best way, or am
I missing something obvious?
Many thanks,
Keith
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