RE: strange behaviour -- gdbtk & stdin on winxp

[James Lemke <jim@TheLemkes.ca>]

>   Jim, do you have 'tty' set in your $CYGWIN environment variable?  I don't
> know if it'll help or not, but it affects tty-handling in the cygwin lib:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
> 
> "(no)tty - if set, Cygwin enables extra support (i.e., termios) for
> UNIX-like ttys. It is not compatible with some Windows programs. Defaults to
> not set, in which case the tty is opened in text mode. Note that this has
> been changed such that ^D works as expected instead of ^Z, and is settable
> via stty. This option must be specified before starting a Cygwin shell and
> it cannot be changed in the shell."
> 
>   It might or might not help to experiment with it.

Thanks for the idea Dave.  Unfortunately it didn't help.
I tried adding the following to c:\autoexec.bat:
set CYGWIN=tty

and the following to ~/.bash_profile:
export CYGWIN=tty

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