From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: CYGWIN variable and NT emacs 20.3 (or even vim)
14 Dec 1998 06:58:28 -0800
Message-ID: <01BE2731.A3DC30F0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: "Gnu-Win32 (E-mail)" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Ian Collins'"
	 <ianc AT kiwiplan DOT co DOT nz>

Ian Collins wrote:
> I now telnet to the Cygnus NT server and login (/dev/tty0), and rerun "emacs
> -nw"
> 
> I get the error: "emacs: standard input is not a tty".
> 
> Isn't the CYGWIN action for tty the wrong way round??
> Why doesn't it work from a pseudo tty??
> 

Telnetd always creates pseudo tty to run a session. NTEmacs can't run with std handles redirected to pipes.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Piscataway, NJ


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