mintty screen size problem

[Steven Woody]

On 10 June 2010 13:27, Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 June 2010 06:07, Steven Woody wrote:
>> I found some windows native command-line programs can not run in
>> mintty, while they can in the old cygwin shell window.
>>
>> For example, there is a windows command line application, slrn,  (a
>> nntp news reader), when it is started from mintty, it will report
>> "unable to determine the screen size" and then exit.  Another example
>> is windows version of python, when start it from mintty, it will
>> display nothing and never return unless I press Ctrl-C.
>>
>> Does anyone see the similar problems?  Do you have a solution? Thanks.
>
> Yes. No. See http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56 for
> more than you want to know about this.
>
> The workaround is to invoke such programs through 'cygstart'.
> Alternatively, the 'conin' wrapper mentioned in that thread should
> work fairly well for Python.
>

Thanks.  'cygstart' works, but I have to type the full path of the
program that I want to run as a parameter to 'cygstart'.

> Andy
>
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