From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: B19: perl does not support 14 Nov 1998 17:01:45 -0800 Message-ID: <19981114185118.25835.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send105.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "Patrice M.I. Parmentier" , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ---"Patrice M.I. Parmentier" wrote: > > I write the trivial perl script: > > print while(); > > and run it with perl 5.00502 (ActiveState distribution AND my own > compilation without PERL_OBJECT) on NT4 (sp3). While the script works > properly on DOS shells, it does not work on bash: the script immediately > stops without reading anything from the keyboard... If the perl is a native win32 (non-cygwin) version and you have tty set in the CYGWIN32 variable then it's not going to work. In order for stdio to happen for non-cygwin binaries with the cygwin bash requires that you set notty. == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - 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".