RE: Text entry to command line program

["Ross Boulet" <ross at rossb dot com>]

> 
> Try something like:
> 
> CYGWIN=notty sqlplus
> 

Is that saying notty for sqlplus and tty for everything else?

Is there any decent documentation for what the CYGWIN variable does?

> >>
> >>
[ ... Snip ... ]
> >>
> >
> >OK, my bad.  I found a couple of references to this behavior 
> in the ML.  I
> >was suspicious of the "CYGWIN=ntsec tty" environment 
> variable (set for sshd)
> >and had tried unsetting it in the shell to no avail.  I 
> found that if I
> >unset it with dos before I start the shell, the behavior 
> reverts to what I
> >expected (password not echoed).
> >
> >What am I losing in the shell with not having CYGWIN set?
> 
> 



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