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* Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
       [not found]                   ` <20090107155217.GB32231@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
@ 2009-01-07 19:42                     ` Linda Walsh
  2009-01-07 20:06                       ` Christopher Faylor
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Linda Walsh @ 2009-01-07 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> screen uses ptys.  ptys are equivalent to CYGWIN=tty.
> 
> We really don't guarantee that pure Windows applications will work with
> ptys.
> 
> cgf
---
	Aw gee...but you overcome worse limitations in windows...
	I figured 'walk-on-air' was the next logical step after you got
the 'walk-on-water' syscall to work...


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* Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
  2009-01-07 19:42                     ` cmd.exe from Cygwin Linda Walsh
@ 2009-01-07 20:06                       ` Christopher Faylor
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Faylor @ 2009-01-07 20:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:41:02AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>screen uses ptys.  ptys are equivalent to CYGWIN=tty.  We really don't
>>guarantee that pure Windows applications will work with ptys.
>
>Aw gee...but you overcome worse limitations in windows...  I figured
>'walk-on-air' was the next logical step after you got the
>'walk-on-water' syscall to work...

I actually vaguely discussed a way to do this fairly recently in the
mintty thread.

cgf

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