From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: Question if I may Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:06:00 -0000 Message-id: <39DA2028.7F9797BB@cygnus.com> References: <4.3.0.20001002234133.00ae3c30@imap.coe.utah.edu> <4.3.2.7.0.20001003111017.00ad3a10@imap.coe.utah.edu> X-SW-Source: 2000-10/msg00067.html Bret Jordan wrote: > Nearly everything works fine. I can connect from a workstation to the > server and run the normal shell programs. However when I try to run any > command character programs, edit, pmon, emacs, vi, or anything that draws > data to the command window it dies. Usually the response is it just hangs > the connection and sits there. Then if I look at the actual process on the > server it shows that the process xyz is running. It is like it is trying > [...] You should use the Cygwin ports of that tools ("vim" from the base distro for example) since most native Windows applications are not able to deal with that socket oriented connection used by sshd. Windows tools like `edit' are using the native Windows console commands most of the time so they are only able to run in a standard console. While you are connected to another machine, the communication is quite different. And don't try to start GUI tools. This will not work, either. Hope, that helps, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@sources.redhat.com Red Hat, Inc. mailto:vinschen@cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com