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From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt AT sunflower DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:11:02 -0500
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Subject: Re: BASH issues
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References: <20000905135023 DOT 11811 DOT qmail AT web111 DOT yahoomail DOT com>; from earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:50:23AM -0700
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Just a quick reference, ... I assume Whistler Beta is the merge
of NT/2000 and win 9x/ME

<http://www.pcworld.com/pcwtoday/article/0,1510,17876,00.html>

Regards,
Doug Wyatt

> Just a couple of observations:
> 
> 1) If it isn't clear, cygwin is currently in use by thousands of people.
>    AFAIK, none of them have reported problems where "echo seems to be
>    turned off".  That means that we need a lot more details.  The first
>    thing would be the output of 'cygcheck -r -s -v'.
> 
> 2) I'm probably remarkably ignorant, but I don't know what the "Whistler
>    beta program" is.
> 
> 3) You managed to find the cygwin mailing list.  I assume that you did this
>    via the cygwin web page at "sources.redhat.com/cygwin/".  Is this correct?
>    If so, could you tell me what was unclear about the statement:
>    "Please send cygwin-related questions and observations to the
>    Cygwin Mailing List." ?  I don't really understand your quandry.
> 
> Christopher Faylor
> Cygwin Engineering Manager
> (Don't send bug reports to me directly.  Please use the mailing list)
> 
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 06:50:23AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >If you have problems with Cygwin then cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com is the place to
> >ask.  Your particular problems sounds to me as if the terminal is receiving
> >some binary data that causes echo to be turned off.  See `info stty' for echo
> >control options.
> >--- egb AT us DOT ibm DOT com wrote:
> >> 
> >>Is any of you on the Whistler beta program?  (geez, maybe I'll fix the
> >>subject heading this time.) BASH runs ok for a while but it gets into a
> >>state where echo seems to be turned off and nothing useful can be done.
> >>I haven't played with it enough to truely characterize the issue.  Even
> >>if I can describe it in great detail, I am in a quandry about to whom
> >>to report this.
> >>
> >>Where are you folks?  Have you "applied" to get on the Whistler beta
> >>program?
> 
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