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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:37:00 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: export CYGWIN=tty
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Larry, Daniel,

I don't routinely use the "tty" option of the CYGWIN variable, but when 
I've experimented with it, I've seen symptoms like those reported by Daniel 
if I set the tty option after a shell is started and then run a program 
such as Vim that changes the tty modes. When the program exits, it appears 
the shell reestablishes tty modes unaware that CYGWIN has had tty added to 
it and those modes are inappropriate in that case (in particular, echoing 
is disabled, as Daniel reported).


Also note we're trying to encourage people to put their "cygcheck" output 
into an attachment so when others search the list archives they don't get 
spurious hits from all the package and library names included in the 
cygcheck output.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 05:46 2002-10-29, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 12:02 AM 10/29/2002, Daniel Jeffery wrote:
>>I do the above to run emacs, (so I can type C-c and C-t while in emacs), 
>>and when I'm done (C-x C-c), it looks like I need to type `reset'.  (I 
>>can't see what I'm typing.)  But it doesn't work!  I have to do `unset 
>>CYGWIN' and then `reset' (without looking too close, mind you) and then I 
>>get my prompt back.  `reset' also doesn't clear the screen.  (note: reset 
>>and tset are part of ncurses).  is ncurses incompatible with 
>>`CYGWIN=tty'?  Is this supposed to happen?
>
>let me know,
>                          - Daniel J.
>
>
>You might get a better answer with better information given.  The results 
>of 'uname -a' or 'cygcheck -s -r -v' for example may be significant.  I 
>don't use emacs but I do use 'tty' in my CYGWIN environment variable and 
>have no problems running/using 'reset'.
>
>
>Larry Hall


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