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From: "Gareth Pearce" <tilps AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: export CYGWIN=tty
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 06:32:58 +1100
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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).

Indeed - this is probably why the users guide explicitly states that the tty
variable must be set before starting cygwin.  On boot is my preference.

Gareth

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