On 10 June 2010 13:27, Andy Koppe <andy.ko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10 June 2010 06:07, Steven Woody wrote: >> I found some windows native command-line programs can not run in >> mintty, while they can in the old cygwin shell window. >> >> For example, there is a windows command line application, slrn, (a >> nntp news reader), when it is started from mintty, it will report >> "unable to determine the screen size" and then exit. Another example >> is windows version of python, when start it from mintty, it will >> display nothing and never return unless I press Ctrl-C. >> >> Does anyone see the similar problems? Do you have a solution? Thanks. > > Yes. No. See http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56 for > more than you want to know about this. > > The workaround is to invoke such programs through 'cygstart'. > Alternatively, the 'conin' wrapper mentioned in that thread should > work fairly well for Python. >
Thanks. 'cygstart' works, but I have to type the full path of the program that I want to run as a parameter to 'cygstart'. > Andy > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Life is the only flaw in an otherwise perfect nonexistence -- Schopenhauer narke public key at http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371 (narkewo...@gmail.com) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
