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


On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:40:17PM -0500, Michael Erdely wrote:
>Think of Windows ME as Windows 98 SE with a Windows 2000 "look and feel".
>It's almost exactly the same under the covers.

But does it have autoexec.bat?  I thought that use of DOSisms was deprecated.

cgf

>----- 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.

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