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Subject: Re: New Win2K/XP bug report
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:29:47 -0600 (CST)
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> > Maybe I'm missing something on how running a shell will fix a pipe?
> 
> If instead of "foo | less" you run "cmd.exe /c foo | less" from the Bash 
> command prompt, does it solve the problem?  I thought you said it did, 
> so I suggested to run PE executables via the Windows shell.

It runs just fine outside of bash, but if you do anything with cmd as
above from bash it also doesn't work.

for example, cmd /c dir | strings 
shows absolutely nothing under bash (cmd is also a win32 image).

> The idea is that if cmd.exe starts with its stdout redirected, any Win32 
> console application run from it will inherit the redirection.

Since cmd.exe is also a win32 executable, sending its output to a djgpp
image also doesn't seem to work.