CYGWIN variable and NT emacs 20.3 (or even vim)

Sergey Okhapkin sos@prospect.com.ru
Mon Dec 14 04:18:00 GMT 1998


Ian Collins wrote:
> I now telnet to the Cygnus NT server and login (/dev/tty0), and rerun "emacs
> -nw"
> 
> I get the error: "emacs: standard input is not a tty".
> 
> Isn't the CYGWIN action for tty the wrong way round??
> Why doesn't it work from a pseudo tty??
> 

Telnetd always creates pseudo tty to run a session. NTEmacs can't run with std handles redirected to pipes.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Piscataway, NJ


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