X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:52:17 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin Message-ID: <20090107155217.GB32231@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4962D8ED.1000109@cygwin.com> <5195c8760901052020l6dd3669bif4ffe5525846f03d@mail.gmail.com> <4962DE56.6040007@cygwin.com> <5195c8760901052113i531a01eeucd7e7aa0f36c8dc3@mail.gmail.com> <5195c8760901060035x2743936axd05b108055404d45@mail.gmail.com> <49639969.40707@cygwin.com> <49639A90.8020702@cygwin.com> <5195c8760901062114r6ba086a1v2f6bac5ee1ed1538@mail.gmail.com> <49644792.2030607@cygwin.com> <5195c8760901070019y58d4f3a4l266950475001f21b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5195c8760901070019y58d4f3a4l266950475001f21b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam 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) > 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 -- 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/