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From:	Dtcohen AT aol DOT com
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Date:	Sat, 15 Jan 2000 01:35:15 EST
Subject:	Re: getc() problem with Cygwin v1.0
To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
CC:	Dtcohen AT aol DOT com
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Earnie Boyd writes...
>Hmm... I just did `export TERM=ansi' and I can still do the backspace.  What
>happens if you do Ctrl-H instead of the Backspace key?  Is it possible that
>your Backspace key is mapped to be the Delete key?  BTW, my CYGWIN variable
>isn't set at all.
>
>Regards,
>
>=====
>Earnie Boyd

Chris Faylor writes...
>I thought that I'd responded to this already but I can't find it in my mail
>logs.
>
>There is a bug in the handling of "cooked" mode in cygwin 1.0 iff you are
>using CYGWIN=tty.  There is no workaround other than to download a snapshot.
>
>cgf

OK, now we're talking.  I unset my CYGWIN variable and now everything
works fine.

Thanks everyone for your help with this one.

From Eric Fifer...
>
>I'm not sure this is related, but I posted about something
>similar a few weeks back (and had no responses).  I'm not
>running v1.0, right now I'm running the 2000/01/05 snapshot
>and the following is still true ...
>
>---
>
>Subject: line editing not working with rxvt and recent cygwin snapshots
>
>Line editing (erase/kill) isn't working within rxvt.  I'm not
>sure why, but characters are being processed immediately.
>
>It's easy to demonstrate, start up "cat" reading from stdin and then
>just type "abc ENTER".
>
>In the normal console you'll see:
>
>        bash$ cat
>        abc
>        abc
>
>In rxvt:
>
>        bash$ cat
>        aabbcc
>
>With my old b20.1 setup, rxvt and line editing works fine.
>
>For the test, I forced my stty settings to be identical
>on both ttys.  And CYGWIN does set "tty".
>

Eric,

     Thanks for the post.  I would suggest un-setting your CYGWIN=tty
variable and see if you still have the problem.

Jim Grishaw.
dtcohen AT aol DOT com

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