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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: Getting "cleartool" prompts to work in Cygwin
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 14:28:16 -0700
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Karr, David wrote:

>Uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 WG44KA2G55H 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20
>i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
>
>The "cleartool" application (part of ClearCase) will often present
>question prompts in normal operation, to confirm certain operations.
>When I execute these commands in a DOS box, it works fine.
>
>However, when I execute this in a Bash shell in RXVT, at the point
>where it would issue the prompt, it just sits there doing nothing.  If I
>then press Return, it immediately emits the prompt message, and then
>takes that as my response.  If instead of pressing Return, I first type
>an expected response and press Return, then it takes that as my
>response, which is an acceptable workaround (if I know what the prompt
>says).
>
>If this Bash shell is inside XEmacs, however, when I press Return at the
>invisible prompt, it takes my response and then kills the Bash shell
>it's running in. :(
>
>Is there a strategy I can use to get it to work the same way it does in
>a DOS box, printing the entire prompt message, and exiting normally?
>
No. The problem is that cleartool is written for Windows (i.e. DOS or 
cmd) which does not use ptys. rxvt, and apparently XEmacs both use ptys. 
The only solution is to get Rational to fix cleartool (or to use a DOS 
box - or to specify all parameters on the command line so that there is 
no prompting).



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