On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:56:21PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: >Mark Mitchell wrote: >>As a test case, I'd recommend the latest code I posted. If a MinGW >>application tries to open CONOUT$ with CreateFile, it gets >>INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, so the OS doesn't seem to think the console is >>available. > >I should have said "in a Cygwin xterm" somewhere in that sentence; it >can of course open CONOUT$ from a console window.
And, if it can't open CONOUT$ in cygwin's xterm, that's a bug... cgf
