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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To: "'Stucky, Mark B.           UTRC'" <StuckyMB AT utrc DOT utc DOT com>,
        "'C. R. Oldham'" <cro AT nca DOT asu DOT edu>,
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Subject: RE: Stdin/out with cygwish80.
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:53:03 +0200
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Hi,

being lazy, I'd just: catch { console show }

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stucky, Mark B.           UTRC [SMTP:StuckyMB AT utrc DOT utc DOT com]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 17, 2000 17:10
> To:	'C. R. Oldham'; Cygwin Mailing List
> Subject:	RE: Stdin/out with cygwish80.
> 
> 
> Your problem is not a tty problem.
> 
> When you run a Tk script on a UNIX machine, stdout (and stdin,stderr)
> is associated with the window (probably an xterm) that launched the
> script.  So if you do a "puts" the output goes to that window.
> 
> However, on Windows versions of Tk, stdout (stdin,stderr) are
> associated with a separate console window.  It is the "same" console 
> window that you see if you type "cygwish80" by itself.
> 
> One simple solution is add "console show" to your script.
> This will display the console window.  For example, try the following:
> 
>      button .b -text "Press Me" -command {puts "Hello"}
>      pack .b
> 
>      console show
> 
> The only problem is that the "console" command is not defined for UNIX
> systems.  So if you need your script to be portable, you need to
> determine
> whether or not the script is running on UNIX (check the value of
> $tcl_platform(platform) ).   
> 
> Another approach would be to use a text widget and to re-direct your
> "puts" output to that text widget.  I have an example of doing this,
> but in order to keep this message shorter, I'm not including it.  If
> you want it, send me a separate email since this is a little off topic
> for the mailing list.
> 
> --Mark    stuckymb AT utrc DOT utc DOT com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. R. Oldham [mailto:cro AT nca DOT asu DOT edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 10:37 AM
> To: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc); Cygwin Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Stdin/out with cygwish80.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> > At 06:20 PM 8/16/2000, you wrote:
> > >Greetings,
> > >
> > >I wrote a little tcl/tk script to grab a passphrase from the user
> and
> > >output it to stdout.  Unfortunately, cygwish80 does not appear to
> open
> > >stdout or allow tcl to "puts" to it.  Am I missing something here?
> >
> > Could this be a tty problem?  What's your CYGWIN variable set to?
> Is
> "tty"
> > in it?  You might want to unset it and try again.  Output from
> cygcheck
> may
> > help diagnosing this problem as well...
> 
> I've tried with both 'tty' set and unset.
> 
> Attached is 'cygcheck -s -v' output.
> 
> --
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