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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