ACGWIN FUNDAMENTALS EXPLAINED

The Cygwin DLL consists of a console driver that emulates a Unix-type terminal within the Home windows console. Cygwin's default person interface may be the bash shell jogging in the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) units. Cygwin ships with many terminal emulators which can be dependant on them, such as mintty, rxvt/urx