From: dbush AT adn DOT alcatel DOT com (David Bush) Subject: Re: problems with "more" (or less) in XTerm 28 Aug 1998 02:33:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: <13796 DOT 53438 DOT 24000 DOT 695285 AT SIRIUS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Charles G. Waldman" Cc: Andy Piper , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I don't have an answer, but it may be in the setting of your CYGWIN32 environment variable. Does it include "tty"? david On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Charles G. Waldman wrote: > > I'm using the X11R6.3 and "/usr/local" distributions from Andy Piper's > page. It's nice to be able to interact with NT using Bash in a XTerm > instead of the ugly and ill-behaved "DOS box" > > However I have found that if you use "more" or "less" inside an XTerm > it seems to hang - there is some problem related to the controlling > terminal. In particular if I run Bash in a DOS box and type > "xterm &" > then in the xterm, do something like "ls -R | less" > I get one screenful of text in the XTerm, then it hangs up. > Interestingly, if I type into the original DOS box (that I started > XTerm from), this causes the pager in the subordinate XTerm to > continue. So, "less" is looking for the user input to come from the > parent terminal, instead of from the XTerm itself. > > (A) Has anybody else noticed this? I've only been running Cygnus for > a few weeks and perhaps I don't have everything configured correctly. > (I'm using the 19.4 cygwin DLL from Andy's page) > > (B) Any ideas how to go about fixing this? > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".