[R] Use Rterm in rxvt for Cygwin?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:53:54 -0800, you wrote in message
<wmvfywfezx.fsf at qiuranke.phony.washington.edu>:

>On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk outgrape:
>
>>  Rterm is a Windows application.  It works fine in Windows tcsh and in 
>>  Cygwin bash on Windows XP (and last time I looked, Windows 98 too).
>
>Rterm doesn't work (interactively) in Cygwin bash on our machine (Windows 2000
>SP 3, R 1.6.1).  (Not that I need that functionality). It gives error like,
>
>,----
>| The instruction at "0x7800270e" referenced memory at "0x0000000". The memory
>| could not be read.
>`----

That version (and r-devel) both work fine for me in XP and Win98 under
bash.  As Brian Ripley said, it looks like a problem with the
msvcrt.dll/cygwin versions you've got on your machine.

Duncan Murdoch