strange bash behavior with CYGWIN=tty (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lynx-2.8.5-4)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:11:34PM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote:
>Rodrigo Medina wrote:
>
>>The cycheck output is attached.
>
>Can't see anything odd here. Of course, since you didn't use the '-v' 
>and '-r' options, I don't see your environment, or your registry 
>settings here.
>
>But while I was playing around with my own settings to try to reproduce 
>this (I normally don't set CYGWIN at all), I ran into something odd with 
>bash. (Didn't even get as far as starting lynx).
>
>Trying
>
>  env CYGWIN=tty bash
>
>gave me a bash in which the first command echoes properly, but the 
>second and subsequent commands don't echo at all.

Correct.  You need to set CYGWIN=tty before you start the first Cygwin
process.

cgf

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