> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 13 October 2004 15:17
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:01:07PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Rainer Hochreiter
> >> Sent: 13 October 2004 08:32
> >
> >>is there a chance to install cygwin without gui dialog?
> >>
> >>my plan is to download all needed packages into a local
> directory and
> >>then install the packages from that local directory by
> starting setup
> >>from a command line without further user interaction.
> >
> >"setup.exe --help" gives this output, which for some bizarre
> reason it
> >places in the setup.log file...
>
> Probably because a GUI app can't communicate with the console.
I thought if a GUI app called printf it generally caused a console to be
opened for it. Maybe that's only with msvcrt. In any case, the fact is
that it is being run from a cmdline and so it certainly can communicate with
the console. The presence of command-line options in argc/argv could be
taken as a fairly strong hint that it was being run from a shell rather than
an icon. And there's always "isatty (1)" if you really really want to be
sure.
cheers,
DaveK
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