[Gmsh] command line option

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
> Lin Ji wrote:
> 
>>It is the default shell I get after I installed Cygwin. I then opened a
>>tcsh from within this shell, I still could not get the processing message.
>>The shell works fine with getdp.
> 
> 
> Weird... I'll have to try the next time I have access to a Windows
> machine. What happens if you recompile Gmsh from the sources?
> 

OK, apparently it's one of these nice Windows "features". If you compile
a program with '-mwindows' (to get rid of the DOS shell window in
interactive mode), you can't write to the DOS shell at all...

Two solutions:

1) recompile Gmsh without '-mwindows' (edit the 'variables' file for this);

2) stop using the DOS terminal, and use a more capable one like rxvt.
You can either launch 'rxvt.exe' by hand from the DOS shell, or put
something like the following in the 'cygwin.bat' script:

C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
rxvt -sl 2000 -fn "Courier-new" -geometry 90x40 -e ./bash --login -i

(Note that rxvt provides many other advantages over the regular DOS
terminal, like cut and paste with the mouse, no stupid size or scrolling
limitations, etc.)

Hope this helps,

Christophe


> Christophe
> 
> 
>>Lin Ji
>>Department of Mathematics, Amos Eaton 407
>>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>>Troy, NY 12180
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Christophe Geuzaine" <geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu>
>>To: "Ji, Lin" <jil at rpi.edu>
>>Cc: <gmsh at geuz.org>
>>Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 5:52 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Gmsh] command line option
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Ji, Lin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Dear Jean-Francois,
>>>>      It seems I have trouble to use the command line option of gmsh
>>
>>in
>>
>>
>>>>cygwin (version 1.45). For example, gmsh -help or gmsh -version gives
>>
>>me
>>
>>
>>>>nothing. I also can not get the message while it is running (default
>>>>verbosity is 2). Please help.
>>>>     It is working fine in the interactive mode.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Do you have this problem in a regular DOS shell, or using
>>
>>bash/tcsh/etc.?
>>
>>
>>>Christophe
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>Christophe A. Geuzaine
>>>Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
>>>geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu - http://geuz.org
>>
>>
>>
>>Dept. of Math., Amos Eaton
>>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>>110 8th Street
>>Troy, New York 12180-3590
>>
>>Phone: 518-276,8377 (work)
>>
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Christophe A. Geuzaine
Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech
geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu - http://geuz.org