Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/10/05/21:24:21
I have come across this problem on my WinNT(SP3) box using
cygwinb19(.4).dll (669150bytes) and BASH.EXE 2.0.2(1) when
using telnet utilising Sergey's inetd remote utilities.
I have since got round the problem by reverting to BASH.EXE 2.01(1).EXE
Whats happening here is that the process is requesting input from
the terminal i.e END: (less's case) and the shell thinks that the
process is in background. Under UNIX the message would be
Stopped: (tty input) or similar. Therefore I would conclude that
the new version of BASH.EXE is incorrectly flagging processes
as being in background albeit intermittently, although using
less(1) to output a file that is less than a screen full seems to
cause the problem to manifest itself consistently...
If you're not already Go Back to BASH.EXE 2.0.1(2).EXE
and this should sort out your problem....
>
> I'm having some wierd problems with less, and I don't know if it's my
> environment settings, or my ncurses library, or what. I'm using less
> v332 from andy's local.tar.
>
> Less operates as expected, until I try to view a file with less than a
> full screen of data. If I execute 'less shortfile', the file is
> displayed in the terminal window, followed by the message: '[1]+
> Stopped less shortfile'
>
> >From that point on, all (?) interactive console mode programs misbehave.
> When invoking less on a file with _more_ than a full screen of data,
> e.g. 'less longfile', the first screen worth of data is displayed
> followed by '[2]+ Stopped less longfile'. (This identical command
> worked fine _before_ my 'mistake' with shortfile) Ditto with vi, or
> hexedit. I can always bring the executable back to the foreground, and
> things seem to work okay after that, but this is annoying.
>
> Does anybody know what's going on? My cygwin variable is 'tty notitle
> ntea binmode'
>
> --Chuck Wilson
>
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