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From: "Richard Stanton" <stanton AT haas DOT berkeley DOT edu>
To: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: ncftp - works, but doesn't display any prompts
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:08:05 -0800
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Hmmm. HOME is set (in the NT environment) to "c:\home". I've also tried
"c:/home" and "/c/home". When I fire up bash and run "set", I see (among
other things):

HISTFILE=/home/.bash_history
HOME=/home
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH='\'

The bash history file is stored in c:\home\.bash_history, so bash uses the
directory I want (by the way, c:\home is mounted as /home), but ncftp
doesn't use the files in c:\home\.ncftp.

Oh. One more thing... If I type "open" at the ncftp prompt, I see a nice
list of sites to choose from. When I scroll up and down the list, the format
of the highlighted item is different from that of the non-highlighted items
(the spacing is reduced), and this leave the entry messed up on the screen
after the highlighting moves onto the next item.

Richard Stanton


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles S. Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 5:42 PM
> To: Richard Stanton
> Cc: Cygwin
> Subject: Re: ncftp - works, but doesn't display any prompts
>
>
> If your $HOME variable (%HOME% outside of bash) is not set, then HOME
> will default to c:/.  This is a cygwin thing, not an ncftp thing.
>
> --Chuck
>
> Richard Stanton wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for checking into that, Charles. One more little thing -
> ncftp seems
> > to read and write its configuration files from/to the directory
> c:/.ncftp on
> > my disk, not c:/cygnus/.ncftp, even though I have "c:\cygnus" mounted as
> > "/". Should this be happening?
> >
> > Richard Stanton
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 4:53 PM
> > > To: Richard Stanton
> > > Cc: Cygwin
> > > Subject: Re: ncftp - works, but doesn't display any prompts
> > >
> > >
> > > This is a bug in ncftp or cygwin.  If ncftp determines that it is not
> > > running from a TTY, it doesn't print any prompts.  Here's the
> code that
> > > it uses to determine that (ncftp/main.c):
> > >
> > >         gIsTTY = ((isatty(2) != 0) && (getppid() > 1)) ? 1 : 0;
> > >         gIsTTYr = ((isatty(0) != 0) && (getppid() > 1)) ? 1 : 0;
> > >
> > > Here's the result of those operations in a bash window:
> > > isatty(2) = 1
> > > isatty(0) = 1
> > > getppid() = 1764
> > > gIsTTY = 1
> > > gIsTTYr = 1
> > >
> > > And from a cmd prompt:
> > > isatty(2) = 1
> > > isatty(0) = 1
> > > getppid() = 1
> > > gIsTTY = 0
> > > gIsTTYr = 0
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what the right fix is.  Options:
> > >   1) Is this really a problem with the getppid implementation
> of cygwin
> > > (?)
> > >   2) patch ncftp to ignore the value of getppid() -- just use
> isatty(x)
> > >      --> #ifdef __CYGWIN__, or for all platforms?  Why does ncftp test
> > >      getppid() anyway?
> > >
> > > --Chuck
> > >
> > > Richard Stanton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I just installed the latest version of ncftp using the cygwin
> > > setup program.
> > > > I love the program, and it seems to work fine, but I don't get
> > > any prompts
> > > > to make it clear I'm supposed to type. Here's a sample
> session, my input
> > > > preceded by "*":
> > > >
> > > > [c:\]ncftp
> > > > NcFTP 3.0.2 (October 19, 2000) by Mike Gleason (ncftp AT ncftp DOT com).
> > > > *dir
> > > > dir: must be connected to do that.
> > > > *open ttt
> > > > Resolving ttt...
> > > >
> > > > Unknown host "ttt".
> > > >
> > > > How do I get it to display ftp-type command prompts?
> > > >
> > > > Richard Stanton
> > > >
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