Hello All, I am helping someone write a python script to run their DOS application through an SSH terminal. It seems that this program wants to access a DOS shell and send output there. If running remotely, this causes a problem because it locks up the program. The program seems (to me) to be looking for some non-existant DOS shell to send its output to. How might I emulate this shell (or whatever it is) with python? I have tried several flavors of python (Enthought, ActiveState, etc.). I have tried win32pipe.popen[1-4], and many other things that I can't even remember now. My answer in the past has been to erase the hard drive and install linux, but it seems that this person is insistent on using windows/cygwin. Since I'm married to her, I'm afraid I'm reduced to begging for assistance. BTW, I've googled a lot and read many threads, most point to win32pipe. If I missed an obvious answer or search term, please forgive me. I'm not really a windows guru.
The program in question, in case anyone doesn't understand this problem, is lem: http://spitswww.uvt.nl/web/fsw/mto/lem/lemdos.zip Try running it locally via an xwindows started by cygwin & look to the main cygwin window for output (what is special about this window?). Then try sshing to your cygwin box and running. It locks up. Thanks in advance, James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
