From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: B19: perl does not support <STDIN>
14 Nov 1998 17:01:45 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19981114185118.25835.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send105.yahoomail.com>
Reply-To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
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To:	"Patrice M.I. Parmentier" <ppa AT itmasters DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---"Patrice M.I. Parmentier" <ppa AT itmasters DOT com> wrote:
>
> I write the trivial perl script:
> 
> print while(<STDIN>);
> 
> and run it with perl 5.00502 (ActiveState distribution AND my own
> compilation without PERL_OBJECT) on NT4 (sp3). While the script works
> properly on DOS shells, it does not work on bash: the script
immediately
> stops without reading anything from the keyboard...

If the perl is a native win32 (non-cygwin) version and you have tty
set in the CYGWIN32 variable then it's not going to work.  In order
for stdio to happen for non-cygwin binaries with the cygwin bash
requires that you set notty.


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