From:	cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor)
Subject:	Re: /dev/tty?
4 Nov 1997 06:38:23 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<EJ4KFB.1q2.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References:	<3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 32 DOT 19971104065904 DOT 009244a0 AT zip DOT com DOT au>
Reply-To:	cgf AT bbc DOT com
To:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 32 DOT 19971104065904 DOT 009244a0 AT zip DOT com DOT au>,
raf  <raf2 AT zip DOT com DOT au> wrote:
>hi,
>
>what do you do when fopen("/dev/tty", "r") doesn't work?
>i tried "ln -s /dev/conin /dev/tty" but /dev/conin (the output
>of 'tty') doesn't exist.

Try this instead:

	mount con /dev/tty

That worked for me.

Btw, I've just submitted a patch to make cygwin do this by default.
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