On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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 guess if this question were to crop up here frequently, the answer > would be "yes". It hasn't. > Ok, maybe I shouldn't have done it, but this question prompted me to do the following, and it had an unexpected result (unexpected to me at least).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 fordpc 1.5.8(0.110/3/2) 2004-01-26 14:53 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin [This is current CVS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $CYGWIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sleep 100 [^Z here] [1]+ Stopped sleep 100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ fg sleep 100 Segmentation fault (core dumped) So, it kinda worked :^/. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- 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/
