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RE: CYGWIN variable and NT emacs 20.3 (or even vim)
- To: "Gnu-Win32 (E-mail)" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Ian Collins'" <ianc at kiwiplan dot co dot nz>
- Subject: RE: CYGWIN variable and NT emacs 20.3 (or even vim)
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:16:15 -0500
Ian Collins wrote:
> I now telnet to the Cygnus NT server and login (/dev/tty0), and rerun "emacs
> -nw"
>
> I get the error: "emacs: standard input is not a tty".
>
> Isn't the CYGWIN action for tty the wrong way round??
> Why doesn't it work from a pseudo tty??
>
Telnetd always creates pseudo tty to run a session. NTEmacs can't run with std handles redirected to pipes.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Piscataway, NJ
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