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Re: Commands just hang
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:03:13 +0100
- Subject: Re: Commands just hang
- References: <drtsgf$i0m$1@sea.gmane.org> <ds07g9$q2h$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Feb 3 13:30, Alan Bowler wrote:
> Alan Bowler wrote:
>
> >
> >If I am in kermit and at the command prompt and I try
> >to run some regular Cygwin command with an "!" like
> >"date", all works fine. However, if I then telnet to
> >a remote system, escape back to Kermit's command mode
> >and type "!date" it just hangs. This used to work.
>
> Well I did some more testing, and our private version of
> kermit has nothing to do with the problem. The same thing
> occurs with telnet and echo
>
> -------------------------Bash Window 2 ---------------------------
> oliver[500]$ telnet
> + telnet
> telnet> !/bin/echo this will work fine
> this will work fine
> telnet> open mailhost.thinkage.ca
> Trying 192.102.11.46...
> Connected to mailhost.thinkage.ca.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
> Kernel 2.4.18-5-2003-05-15 on an i686
> login: atbowler
> Password:
> Last login: Fri Feb 3 13:22:20 from oliver.thoughts.thinkage.ca
> You have mail.
> (wd: /u/atbowler)
> atbowler@mailhost[1]% echo about to ^] to telnet command level
> about to ^] to telnet command level
> (wd: /u/atbowler)
> atbowler@mailhost[2]%
> telnet> !/bin/echo this will hang
>
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM
No hang here.
Corinna
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