/dev/tty?

[Chris Faylor]

In article < 3.0.1.32.19971104065904.009244a0@zip.com.au >,
raf  <raf2@zip.com.au> wrote:
>hi,
>
>what do you do when fopen("/dev/tty", "r") doesn't work?
>i tried "ln -s /dev/conin /dev/tty" but /dev/conin (the output
>of 'tty') doesn't exist.

Try this instead:

	mount con /dev/tty

That worked for me.

Btw, I've just submitted a patch to make cygwin do this by default.
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