mintty/ping issue

[Nellis, Kenneth]

From: Nellis, Kenneth
> Running Cygwin 1.7.9, bash 4.1.10, the Windows ping command works
> fine from the Command Prompt window, but not from mintty, where
> it writes the IP address octets as binary, appearing as garbage:
<snip/>

Actually, I can eliminate mintty's involvement, as I see the same
problem when I run ping from Cygwin.bat's console window.

--Ken Nellis