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Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Jeenu V <jeenuv@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Christopher Faylor
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
>> screen uses ptys.  ptys are equivalent to CYGWIN=tty.
>>
>> We really don't guarantee that pure Windows applications will work with
>> ptys.
>
> Hm... looks like I've to live without cmd.exe from screen.
> Anyway,.thank you guys for the support and help.
>

And can this be guaranteed in future versions of Cygwin? Or is it
something constrained by screen?

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