On 2009-12-13, Andy Koppe wrote: > 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
That looks really promising! I just tried it, but our ClearCase servers are apparently still down for maintenance, so I'll try again Monday. Regards, Gary -- 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
