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On 12/13/2009 6:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 12/13/2009 06:35 PM, Marc Girod wrote:
>> OK. It does. Without CYGWIN=tty, I get the output to the console.
>> What shall I miss without it?
>
> Perhaps correct interaction with Emacs? I can't remember which
> variant of Emacs offered with Cygwin won't handle everything
> correctly without PTYs. You can have a stroll through the email
> archives to find the details if you're so inclined (and no one else
> here speaks up first).

Without CYGWIN=tty, Emacs won't work well in the Cygwin console.  But 
you can use it in any of the other Cygwin terminals (or under X).

Ken


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