From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: [BUG] CYGWIN=tty
5 Nov 1998 10:51:52 -0800
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On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 09:21:29AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>set CYGWIN=tty is now the opposite of what it should be.  I have to
>set CYGWIN=notty in order to get tty support.  Somehow the switches
>got reversed.
>
>I don't know if this effects the other switches or not.  Can someone
>experienced with the code confirm if this effects the other switches?

This may be what you're experiencing but that's not what is actually
happening.  When Geoff changed CYGWIN32 to CYGWIN he forgot to subtract
2 from the code which skipped over the environment variable name.

So, setting CYGWIN=  tty should do what you want.

cgf