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RE: Text entry to command line program


On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Ross Boulet 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.
>
> Ross

You could use something like 'CYGWIN="notty" cygstart -- sqlplus', which
should open sqlplus in a new window...
	Igor
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