On 2008-03-28, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote: >> Are you using ClearCase on Windows, or just ClearCase on Unix? We use both >> at work. I found that I couldn't execute "cleartool edcs" in rxvt because >> cleartool apparently requires a Windows Console. The editor (vim) ran >> fine, but the screen filled with a bunch of garbage when I closed vim. Are >> you able to run "cleartool edcs" in rxvt or ssh? > One must remember when using rxvt that it uses ptys. Many Windows programs > don't understand ptys. Cleartool is one of them. Try just typing in > cleartool in an rxvt Window. You'll never see the prompt. Luckily I, and > apparently you, rarely type in cleartool then enter in commands. You > probably have your ct alias which is common. So then you do ct ls or ct > lsview or ct checkout or ct co... etc. You then never hit the problem with > ptys. > > ct edcs then introduces the problem because it effectively does: > > $ ct catcs > /tmp/$$ > $ vim /tmp/$$ > $ # check that file has changed and offer to setcs > $ ct setcs /tmp/$$ > > So then you could do, roughly, the above (which is what I do) or perhaps > script it.
Good idea. I'll try writing a ct script to trap the edcs case and handle it as above. Thanks again. Regards, Gary -- 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/
