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From: Chris Faylor <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
To: Ryan L McFall <mcfallry@cse.msu.edu>
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: xterms and vi
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 18:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990715145021.A19889@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990731183400.f8kmhZsO7OdsePbIamZxmdD3ReSDy_9JR-A30lGrIkI@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199907151338.JAA03975@arctic.cse.msu.edu>

On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 09:38:03AM -0400, Ryan L McFall wrote:
>
>I know this question has been discussed before, but I've tried the
>solutions that I saw posted in the archives to no avail.
>
>I've got the X11R6.4 client libs downloaded and installed, and am trying to
>run vi within an xterm.  The problem is that programs like vi (and ftp)
>don't do their I/O in the xterm, they do it in the DOS window associated
>with the xterm.
>
>I've set CYGWIN32 (and CYGWIN) to be 'binmode tty', and have an entry in my
>termcap file for xterm (although the symptom appears no matter what type of
>terminal I've set TERM to be).
>
>I've got Cygwin-B20 installed, and am using StarNet's X-Win32 as my
>X-server.
>
>Is there anything else that I've forgotten? 

It sounds like you've forgotten to use cygwin versions of ftp and vi.  It's
unlikely that windows-only versions of those programs will work with the
CYGWIN=tty scheme.

cgf

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-07-31 18:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-15  6:38 Ryan L McFall
1999-07-15  7:17 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-07-31 18:34   ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-07-15 11:52 ` Chris Faylor [this message]
1999-07-16  8:10   ` Ryan L McFall
1999-07-31 18:34     ` Ryan L McFall
1999-07-31 18:34   ` Chris Faylor
1999-07-31 18:34 ` Ryan L McFall
1999-08-10 15:08 Geoff Hart
1999-08-31 23:49 ` Geoff Hart
1999-08-10 16:47 Earnie Boyd
1999-08-10 17:49 ` Glenn Spell
1999-08-10 21:36   ` Chris Faylor
1999-08-31 23:49     ` Chris Faylor
1999-08-31 23:49   ` Glenn Spell
1999-08-10 17:52 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-08-10 21:44   ` Chris Faylor
1999-08-31 23:49     ` Chris Faylor
1999-08-31 23:49   ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-08-11 10:48 ` Geoff Hart
1999-08-31 23:49   ` Geoff Hart
1999-08-31 23:49 ` Earnie Boyd

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