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Re: cleartool & CYGWIN=tty
- To: Geoff Hart <ghart at siemens-psc dot com>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: cleartool & CYGWIN=tty
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:20:38 -0800 (PST)
--- Geoff Hart <ghart@siemens-psc.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to fool a Windows app (cleartool) into thinking
> STDIN is a DOS console? I believe cleartool calls "isatty" to
> determine whether to show a prompt or not ("cleartool> ").
>
> I was hoping I could pipe in some program which would create a
> pseudo DOS tty for STDOUT, while it simply echoed whatever it
> recieved on STDIN. (like: "bash$ fake_console | cleartool")
>
> I know I can achieve this by starting bash, with CYGWIN=notty in
> a regular DOS Command Propmt window, but I like to use TTY support
> *PLUS* I like to use RXVT. Also, cleartool has a "-e" option which
> hints at what I want, but it doesn't have any apparent effect
>
I've no idea if this'll work but hey it just might:
CYGWIN=notty bash -c 'cleartool'
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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