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Re: Setting CYGWIN=nobinmode fixes some things, breaks others
- To: dkarr at tcsi dot com (David M. Karr),cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Setting CYGWIN=nobinmode fixes some things, breaks others
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 21:48:08 -0500
At 08:51 PM 1/22/2001, David M. Karr wrote:
>I've got Cygwin configured with Unix text mode. I'm using non-cygwin
>NTEmacs and NT ClearCase. I've got most things working reasonably
>well.
>
>However, I noticed that when I filter a region in Emacs with
>"shell-command-on-region", to, say, "sort", the resulting output has
>^Ms on each line.
>
>I thought I'd solved this by setting the envvar "CYGWIN" to
>"nobinmode". This fixed this problem, however, it then caused other
>even worse behavior. I have some Perl code that communicates through
>pipes to a "cleartool" process. With this change, I find that reads
>on output for simple cleartool commands block forever. I don't know
>why this is happening. The only way to fix this is to go back to no
>CYGWIN setting.
>
>Is this simply another result of the fact that NTEmacs isn't built
>with Cygwin? I would guess that NTEmacs doesn't build out of the box
>with Cygwin. Is it really the case that going to Cygwin-built XEmacs
>will fix these problems and not load me up with other unexpected
>problems?
Should help.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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