>> And then there are rxvt and xterm and their termcap and terminfo >> entries as well ... >> That I don't understand. What have xterm and rxvt terminals to > do with the "cygwin" terminal type represented by a Windows console? Nothing, sorry. Erroneous copy & pasting from a previous post. Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/