acgwin Fundamentals Explained

The Cygwin DLL contains a console driver that emulates a Unix-style terminal in the Home windows console. Cygwin's default user interface is the bash shell jogging within the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) units. Cygwin ships with a variety of terminal emulators which can be based upon them, together with mintty, rxvt

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