Emacs 21.3.50 problem on XP

[Brian Dessent]

Dharanyava@netscape.net wrote:

> Result: setting CYGWIN=tty in a Win Cmd32 shell and running bash/Cygwin
> works properly.  Is the indication, then, that I should set this as a Win
> environment variable instead of it being in my .bash_profile?

It has to be set before bash starts.  You can do that by editing the
cygwin.bat file, editing the environment variables in Windows, or any
other method along those lines.  Setting it in .bash_profile or any
other rc file sourced by bash will not work.

Brian

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