From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15600 invoked by alias); 11 May 2011 16:19:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 15586 invoked by uid 22791); 11 May 2011 16:19:21 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm20-vm3.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (HELO nm20-vm3.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com) (98.138.91.150) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:19:04 +0000 Received: from [98.138.90.57] by nm20.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2011 16:19:03 -0000 Received: from [98.138.84.38] by tm10.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2011 16:19:03 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp106.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2011 16:19:03 -0000 Received: from cgf.cx (cgf@173.76.50.238 with login) by smtp106.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 May 2011 09:19:03 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Received: from localhost (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C5034A801A for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 12:19:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:19:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why? Message-ID: <20110511161902.GB23628@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <20110510211800.CCBDF9D5A21@mail2.intersystems.com> <20110511063433.GD28594@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DCAA510.9000909@sidefx.com> <20110511153613.GB19557@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4DCAB14F.5000506@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DCAB14F.5000506@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-q2/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:54:55AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >On 5/11/2011 11:36 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:02:40AM -0400, Edward Lam wrote: >>> Personally, when I first ran into this problem, I never realized that >>> CYGWIN=tty would fix it. I did notice that there was a change in the >>> behavior between Cygwin B20 and the Cygwin 1.X releases but I only >>> realize now that this was probably the reason. >> >> Ding, ding ding! >> >> A B20 reference! B20 was da bomb! > >I realize this is sacrilege, but...somewhere in my archives I have an >old copy of full.exe from B20.1 (as well as the ancient cygutils add-on >packages; while the webpages for B20-era cygutils still exist at >http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/OBSOLETE/B20/index.html, the tarballs do >not. I still have 'em somewhere...) > >I ought to install it on XP or Vista and see just how awful it really >is, compared to modern versions. [/bad sacrilegious Chuck. No cookie!] Wasn't B20 auto-adaptable to new versions of Windows? I suspect that, if you just let it sit for a while, it will probably figure out how to run on XP or Vista. cgf