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Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:06:38 -0500
- Subject: Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:41:02AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>screen uses ptys. ptys are equivalent to CYGWIN=tty. We really don't
>>guarantee that pure Windows applications will work with ptys.
>
>Aw gee...but you overcome worse limitations in windows... I figured
>'walk-on-air' was the next logical step after you got the
>'walk-on-water' syscall to work...
I actually vaguely discussed a way to do this fairly recently in the
mintty thread.
cgf