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RE: Text entry to command line program


At 09:26 AM 2/4/2004, Ross Boulet you wrote:
>> [...]
>> > > Try something like:
>> > > 
>> > > CYGWIN=notty sqlplus
>> > > 
>> > 
>> > Is that saying notty for sqlplus and tty for everything else?
>> [...]
>> 
>> No, that's an interactive command line, it's not a setting of 
>> the CYGWIN
>> variable (i.e. it's not CYGWIN="notty sqlplus"). The above 
>> actually launches
>> sqlplus, setting the CYGWIN variable to "notty" for its process.
>> 
>> SLao
>> 
>Unfortunately, this does not work.  I had previously tried setting CYGWIN
>within a shell to no avail.  I found it must be set from dos before
>launching bash or ksh.


Correct.  Just as stated in the User's Guide:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>


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