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Re: Re: 1.1.8: Cannot use "puts" with STDOUT in Expect.exe shell (WINNT)


Think of Windows ME as Windows 98 SE with a Windows 2000 "look and feel".
It's almost exactly the same under the covers.

-ME

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: <thomask@ponymail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: Re: 1.1.8: Cannot use "puts" with STDOUT in Expect.exe shell
(WINNT)


> On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:08:40PM -0500, thomask@ponymail.com wrote:
> >I put
> >
> >CYGWIN=tty
> >
> >into my .bashrc file, and the "channel stdout" error still happens.  Am
> >I still doing something wrong?
>
> Yes.
>
> In general, you should set the CYGWIN environment variable before you
> run any Cygwin processes.
>
> This means that you have to either start a console window:
>
> C:\>set CYGWIN=tty
> C:\>c:\wherever\bin\bash
> bash$
>
> or you have to use some other method for ensuring that the environment
> variable is set in "Windows space".  On NT, you do this via
> Control Panel->System->Environment Variables
>
> On 9x, you could put this in your autoexec.bat.  Dunno how to do this
> on ME.
>
> cgf
>
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