Re: subshell on Cygwin with screen

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier <lists pervalidus net>]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Screen saving only works on the Linux console and
> xterm-compatible terminals (that includes cygwin console).
> However, you still should have the subshell.  What it the
> output of "echo $SHELL" and "mc -V"?

$ echo $SHELL
bash

I had to add shell bash in my .screenrc because it'd default to
sh (which is ash).

$ mc -V
GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.0-pre1b
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish
With builtin Editor
Using the ncurses library
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm

> > It works fine without screen.
>
> Do you have the subshell in the cygwin console?  If you press
> Ctrl-O, do you get the command prompt?

Yes.

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