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From: Levent Yilmaz <sly5+gmane AT pitt DOT edu>
Subject: Re: xemacs shell problem
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 19:47:35 -0400
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Dave,

As a beginner Xemacs-user with hardly any understanding of lisp (yet) I 
have to make sure that I understand it correctly. You suggest that I should,
- Type "M-x eval-expression"
- Type "(setq process-connection-type nil) [return]"
- Observe that Minibuffer displays: "nil"
- Type "M-x shell"
- Execute the (darn) console program

Unfortunately the problem remains. :-(

- Levent

David Rothenberger wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Levent, you may want to try that and see if it changes anything.
> 
> Dave
> 


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