On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 12:43:50PM -0800, Richard F. Burleigh wrote: >Control-Z (^Z) had never worked to suspend simple commands (less, du >-a, etc.) in my default cygwin environment. > >So I spent several hours searching the Cygwin FAQ, Google, and Cygwin >mailing lists before finding the solution. All I needed was to set the >"CYGWIN" environment variable to "tty". (I finally found this in the >"The CYGWIN environment variable" section of the Cygwin User's Guide). > >I'd like to spare others this waste of time. Could this >question/solution be added to the Cygwin FAQ?
I guess if this question were to crop up here frequently, the answer would be "yes". It hasn't. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/