X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:19:09 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: setup-1.7.exe + w2k, no output to cmd Message-ID: <20091202151909.GA10540@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4B1628B9 DOT 20206 AT shaddybaddah DOT name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B1628B9.20206@shaddybaddah.name> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 07:43:37PM +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying to display the help options of the very latest >setup-1.7.exec in a cmd prompt on a Windows 2000 host: > >.\setup-1.7 --help > >and seeing no output at all. Is this expected? Yes. The API for reattaching to the console doesn't exist in W2K. Try .\setup-1.7 --help | less cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple