emacs: standard input is not a tty

Jens Yllman jens.yllman@uniweb.se
Fri Dec 11 03:00:00 GMT 1998


 I would like to get help how to start NT-Emacs from cygwin-bash. I can
not get it running.

 /Jens

David Starks-Browning wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I've got cygwin-b20.1 (full.exe) and nt-emacs 20.3.3.1 (aka 20.4
> pretest) running on NT SP4.
> 
> How can I get "emacs -nw" to work in a bash (cygnus.bat) shell?  It
> works fine in the NT Command Prompt (cmd.exe).  In bash, emacs
> complains that "standard input is not a tty".  I've tried
> 
>         SET CYGWIN=tty
> 
> in cygnus.bat, but to no effect.  Any suggestions?
> 
> (The eventual plan is to use Sergey Okhapkin's remote.tar, with inetd
> running as a service for telnetd.  Then I can telnet into my NT
> workstation and run emacs there in character mode.  Has anyone else
> done this successfully?)
> 
> This has come up before on the gnu-win32 list, but I found no solution
> posted.  Any suggestions?  I would *really* like to be able to run
> nt-emacs from a remote telnet session.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Kind regards,
> David
> 
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