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running win32 text mode application in bash


Having googled the universe looking for information:

I hope this is not to the wrong list but here goes:

I have been using cygwin's bash shell for several years as my only 
interface to building and developing our applications on Windows 2000 pro 
and more recently Winodws XP pro.  Somewhere in the not to distant past 
someting changed and I don't know if I did it or it came with an update. 
Specifically:

in a bash shell typing the command: net time '\\machine' /set      should 
retrieve the time from "machine" and prompt you for a "Y" or "N" response 
before proceeding.
On a Windows XP pro with sp1 the following is the result:

$ net time '\\rwells-rh' /set
Current time at \\rwells-rh is 9/1/2004 9:55 AM

Local time (GMT) at \\rwells-rh is 9/1/2004 2:55 PM

The current local clock is 9/1/2004 9:55 AM
Do you want to set the local computer's time to match the
time at \\rwells-rh? (Y/N) [Y]:
No valid response was provided.

from cygcheck -c on this machine:
bash                 2.05b-16           OK
cygwin               1.5.10-3           OK

other text mode programs that expect user response via the keyboard fail 
similarly as well.


on another machine (Windows 2000) on which cygwin has not been updated in 
about 10 months 
cygcheck -c  yields:
bash                 2.05b-16           OK
cygwin               1.5.5-1            OK

the command executes as expected:

$ net time '\\rwells-rh' /set
Current time at \\rwells-rh is 9/1/2004 11:09 AM

Local time (GMT) at \\rwells-rh is 9/1/2004 3:09 PM

The current local clock is 9/1/2004 11:09 AM
Do you want to set the local computer's time to match the
time at \\rwells-rh? (Y/N) [Y]:                                 (the enter 
key is pressed here thus issuing the default "Y" response)
The command completed successfully.

other textmode programs that expect user response via the keyboard behave 
as expected as well.

At one time (probably some months ago) these commands behaved as expected 
on the XP machine as well.
It may be interesting to note that if the command that succeeds is issued 
in an ssh session from the XP machine it fails as well.

thanks in advance for any advice


Roger Wells, P.E.
SAIC
221 Third St
Newport, RI 02840
401-847-4210 (voice)
401-849-1585 (fax)
roger@mtg.saic.com

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