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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 06:16:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: terminal/tty problems
To: "Sagar R. Shah" <Sagar DOT Shah AT sid DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
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--- "Sagar R. Shah" <Sagar DOT Shah AT sid DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I'm using NTEmacs along side cygwin, and I want to be able to start up emacs
> in the no-windows mode (ie. similar to vi, it will come up in the console
> rather than a windowed app)
> 
> however when I execute "emacs -nw" from bash I get the error message:
> 
> "emacs: standard input is not a tty"
> 

To communicate with non-Cygwin programs you must not set tty in the CYGWIN
variable.  Remove it or specify notty instead.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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