Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:46:59 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Add "Why doesn't ^Z (Suspend) work?" to FAQ? Message-ID: <20040126204659.GB7202@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:43:50PM -0800, Richard F. Burleigh wrote: >Control-Z (^Z) had never worked to suspend simple commands (less, du >-a, etc.) in my default cygwin environment. > >So I spent several hours searching the Cygwin FAQ, Google, and Cygwin >mailing lists before finding the solution. All I needed was to set the >"CYGWIN" environment variable to "tty". (I finally found this in the >"The CYGWIN environment variable" section of the Cygwin User's Guide). > >I'd like to spare others this waste of time. Could this >question/solution be added to the Cygwin FAQ? I guess if this question were to crop up here frequently, the answer would be "yes". It hasn't. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/