Fwd: Re: Joe 2.8 + Cygwin 1.1

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Mon Sep 11 13:47:00 GMT 2000


On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:03:03PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>Since I didn't know a thing about Joe, I replied to Luke privately.  However,
>since my suggestion worked, I'm forwarding this email on to the list so the
>solution can be archived.

FYI, you don't have to set CYGWIN=tty to have cygwin1.dll understand ptys.

You used to have to do that two years ago but Ian Taylor changed that.

cgf

>>That fixed it!
>>
>>I would have never figured that one out - thanks a lot!
>>Luke
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>>
>> > At 01:18 PM 9/11/2000, you wrote:
>> > >Hi all,
>> > >
>> > >I've searched deja, the mailing list archives, and yahoo and couldn't find
>> > >an answer to this question so I thought I'd ask the list. I'm trying to
>> > >build joe-2.8 on a Cygwin 1.1 installation. The biuld process goes fine,
>> > >but when I try to start joe to test it, it comes up, and promptly quits,
>> > >messing the terminal up. I have to re-start the terminal. In the joe
>> > >directory, the file DEADJOE says this:
>> > >
>> > >*** Modified files in JOE when it aborted on Mon Sep 11 10:07:08 2000
>> > >*** JOE was aborted because the terminal closed
>> > >
>> > >I've tried moving termcap/terminfo files around and messing with the tERM
>> > >variable, to no end.
>> > >
>> > >Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>> > >Luke Bakken
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I don't know anything about Joe but does it require ptys?  If so, you might
>> > try setting "tty" in your CYGWIN environment variable, exiting all Cygwin
>> > apps (including bash), and then start them again and try Joe.  This will
>> > enable Cygwin's tty support which I believe includes ptys...
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
>> > RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
>> > 118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
>> > Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX
>> > 
>
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