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Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:54:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: Who's using "CYGWIN=tty" and why?
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- Reply-to: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
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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!]
--
Chuck