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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:24:16 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Ross Boulet cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Text entry to command line program In-Reply-To: <000901c3eb2a$e4c6e660$6400000a@RossLap> Message-ID: References: <000901c3eb2a$e4c6e660$6400000a@RossLap> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet wrote: > > [...] > > > > Try something like: > > > > > > > > CYGWIN=notty sqlplus > > > > > > > > > > Is that saying notty for sqlplus and tty for everything else? > > [...] > > > > No, that's an interactive command line, it's not a setting of > > the CYGWIN > > variable (i.e. it's not CYGWIN="notty sqlplus"). The above > > actually launches > > sqlplus, setting the CYGWIN variable to "notty" for its process. > > > > SLao > > > Unfortunately, this does not work. I had previously tried setting CYGWIN > within a shell to no avail. I found it must be set from dos before > launching bash or ksh. > > Ross You could use something like 'CYGWIN="notty" cygstart -- sqlplus', which should open sqlplus in a new window... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/