Thank you Igor for your helpful explanation. The '-n' flag does the trick, too. And looking at the man pages now just makes me wonder why I did not RTFM well enough before! ;-)
Dave. > > By default, ssh is an interactive program, even if the program it invokes > isn't. Therefore, ssh contains some code that sets up standard input and > its properties. This code may cause some problems when invoked from a > non-pty-aware application (such as a C# program). You can redirect > standard input, as you've already discovered, or simply use the '-n' > option to ssh. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing > whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw > > -- 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/