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Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 10:46:00 -0700
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
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Subject: Re: xemacs shell problem
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Cygwin uses special pipes, called "pty"s, for applications that aren't
> running in a console.  I'm guessing that XEmacs uses these ptys for its
> shell buffer.

It does by default, but this behavior can be changed by executing

   (setq process-connection-type nil)

before starting the shell mode.  This will cause the shell mode to use 
pipes instead of ptys.

Lement, you may want to try that and see if it changes anything.

Dave

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