Re: BLODA extension: console interoperability

[Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>]

On 26 July 2013 05:14, Warren Young wrote:
> On 7/25/2013 17:06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>
>> I might personally prefer to describe and list them differently.
>
>
> DONOPWOL:
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> NOt
> Play
> Well with
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> List

I don't think that's fair, since such apps were designed for the
Windows console, without being aware of Cygwin's pipe-based ptys. And
unfortunately that list would be very long anyway: basically anything
interactive that hasn't been explicitly adapted to Cygwin ptys, for
example by disabling buffering and not relying on the console's
history facility.

Speaking of which: somebody on the mintty mailing list would like to
make a Windows program Cygwin-aware by detecting whether it's running
in a Cygwin terminal (as opposed to having its input or output
redirected to plain pipes). Does anyone know a way to do this?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mintty-discuss/NKXaYjF8jqk

Andy

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