changeset 2091:fb8b35b0def9

update windows readme to document msys/mingw rxvt problems.
author Lee Cantey <lcantey@gmail.com>
date Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:56:44 -0700
parents eb40db373717
children 1d3c6e63d703 cd7cb896396b
files contrib/win32/ReadMe.html
diffstat 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/contrib/win32/ReadMe.html	Wed Apr 19 09:08:45 2006 -0700
+++ b/contrib/win32/ReadMe.html	Wed Apr 19 10:56:44 2006 -0700
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 <html>
   <head>
     <title>Mercurial for Windows</title>
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >  
+    <style type="text/css">
+      <!--
+      .indented
+      {
+      padding-left: 10pt;
+      }
+      -->
+    </style>
   </head>
 
   <body>
@@ -12,10 +21,14 @@
     <p>Mercurial is a command-line application.  You must run it from
       the Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a <a
       href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> shell).</p>
+    
+    <p><div class="indented"><i>Note: the standard <a
+      href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> msys startup script uses
+      rxvt which has problems setting up standard input and output.
+      Running bash directly works correctly.</i></div>
 
     <p>For documentation, please visit the <a
-	href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web
-	site</a>.</p>
+      href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>.</p>
 
     <p>By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>.  The
       Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>.  To run this