> Chris and I are wondering how many people are using the Windows console > as local console window in CYGWIN=tty mode and why.
/usr/share/doc/screen/README.Cygwin says: "In a DOS console, screen works, but in order to be able to reattach detached sessions, you must set "tty" in the CYGWIN environment variable.... If you use screen in a DOS console without CYGWIN=tty, you will be able to detach sessions, but reattaching to them later is likely to fail. Then you'll have to use 'screen -wipe' to clear out your old unusable sessions, and you may have to manually kill their child processes." So it seems that screen users who are still using a DOS console need CYGWIN=tty. I have no idea how many such people there are. If CYGWIN=tty is going away, then we could simply tell screen users that the DOS console is no longer supported in screen, since reattaching there is likely to fail. Andrew. -- 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
