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Re: mintty screen size problem


On 10 June 2010 06:07, Steven Woody wrote:
> I found some windows native command-line programs can not run in
> mintty, while they can in the old cygwin shell window.
>
> For example, there is a windows command line application, slrn, Â(a
> nntp news reader), when it is started from mintty, it will report
> "unable to determine the screen size" and then exit. ÂAnother example
> is windows version of python, when start it from mintty, it will
> display nothing and never return unless I press Ctrl-C.
>
> Does anyone see the similar problems? ÂDo you have a solution? Thanks.

Yes. No. See http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56 for
more than you want to know about this.

The workaround is to invoke such programs through 'cygstart'.
Alternatively, the 'conin' wrapper mentioned in that thread should
work fairly well for Python.

Andy

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