2009/12/13 Marc Girod: > I run a proprietary application, IBM Rational cleartool.exe from cygwin. > In some usage scenarios which I am now interested in, it prompts the user > for an interactive decision. > I do not get this prompt under cygwin (either X --emacs shell or xterm-- or > the Cygwin terminal.
Surprised it doesn't work in the Cygwin console, unless you've got CYGWIN=tty set? The problem likely is that cleartool.exe expects to get input from a Windows console but is actually connected to a Cygwin pty. I'm currently working on a little utility for this sort of situation. It's called 'conin' and translates Cygwin pty input to Windows console input. Source is available at http://mintty.googlecode.com/svn/utils/conin.c and a Cygwin 1.7 executable can be found at http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/conin-0.0.1.zip. Run it as a wrapper for your program, e.g.: $ conin cleartool More info at http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss/browse_thread/thread/1f9cf480117b8a0b Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
