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Re: cat broken
- To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, John.Wiersba@medstat.com
- Subject: Re: cat broken
- From: Phil Edwards <pedwards@jaj.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:03:12 -0400
> Using the 5/23 cygwin1.dll, the following is broken:
> cat >file
> It echos the input typed from the terminal
Uh, that's what is supposed to happen... unless you mean that it ONLY
echos the input, and writes a zero-length file?
> and refuses to accept ^D as EOF.
Use ^Z<CR> (i.e., pretend you had typed COPY CON FILE instead). This
is just a hack.
> I have CYGWIN=tty among other things.
I honestly don't know whether this would affect things or not. The
above is what I have to do with an out-of-box B20, no cat.exe or DLL
or CYGWIN= changes.
Luck++;
(If you reply to the list, please don't cc another copy to me. Thanks!)
Phil
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