[R] Rterm and Windows 2000

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Use wrote:

> I had tried the first two ("plain" Rtem and Rterm under Emacs) and none of
> them seem to work (GNU Emacs 20.5.1). Now I've tried Rterm to run in "BATCH"
> mode and it seems to work fine. I've also proved some options and with
> options as:
> 
> Rterm --vanilla
> 
> or
> 
> Rterm --no-save --no-restore
> 
> the Rterm console admits the command q() and return the system promt but it
> doesn't work for other functions.

Thanks.  That points the finger firmly at thread handling in Windows 2000
being incompatible with earlier versions, which affects interactive use and
use with --ess, but not use with a redirected input.

I am afraid there is nothing we can do about this without a Windows 2000
system and some accurate MicroSoft documentation.

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