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On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:49:46PM +0530, Jeenu V wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
><reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>> Jeenu V wrote:
>
>> With cgf's help and a good look at your cygcheck output, I believe I was
>> able to reproduce something like your problem.  If I'm right, then you
>> want to remove 'tty' from your CYGWIN environment variable.  Make sure
>> you exit *all* Cygwin processes, including services, before firing up
>> bash again and invoking 'cnd' from there to test.
>
>Oh yeah! That works. Thank you.
>
>But here the catch: it behaves the same old way if I invoke cmd.exe
>from screen. Setting $TERM as cygwin doesn't seem to work either.
>Interestingly my colleague too has this problem with screen. :(

screen uses ptys.  ptys are equivalent to CYGWIN=tty.

We really don't guarantee that pure Windows applications will work with
ptys.

cgf

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