Mail Archives: cygwin/1999/01/14/04:25:38
CAUTION: Do not use the Cygwin product to _LEARN_ _UNIX_. You're not
going to be able to do that effectively as the OS is still Win32.
Instead get LINUX or FreeBSD or some other flavor of UNIX to _LEARN_
_UNIX_.
Workaround/Fix 1: Use ([ctrl]Z) instead.
Workaround/Fix 2: SET CYGWIN=TTY before starting bash.
Caveat: Doing this will cause bash not to work properly with
_NON-CYGWIN_ programs.
---Cliff Gower <cgower AT berksys DOT com> wrote:
>
> The end of file command ([ctrl]D) does not end input to a file and
return
> the unix prompt. Actually, this whole operation does not work
properly.
>
> steps to reproduce:
> at the prompt type the following:
> cat [enter]
> then type anything you want and hit [enter].
> your input is immediately directed to the screen. [return] should not
> direct your input to the screen. It should just send the cursor to
the
> next line. input should not be directed to the screen until the end
of
> file command ([ctrlD]) is given. However, [ctrl]D is not
functioning. It
> just returns the * charcter. This means there is no way back to the
unix
> prompt.
> If at the beginning of this operation, the user directs the input to
an
> actual file:
> cat > file1
> the input will be directed to the file and not directly to the
screen, but
> there is still no way out of this operation as [ctrl]D still does
not work.
>
> I hope that was clear enough. I'm new to unix, so I'm not certain
of all
> the lingo and naming conventions. Anyway, let me know if I can be
of any
> more service.
>
> -Cliff
>
>
>
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