Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <20000113201003.4585.qmail@web115.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: getc() problem with Cygwin v1.0 To: Dtcohen@aol.com, fusz@cadlab.tu-berlin.de Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com, Dtcohen@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Dtcohen@aol.com wrote: -8<- > Yes, using gets() or fgets() for a small program would work better, but > the real problem is that canonical mode is broken for v1.0 (the man > page for "termio" explains this in detail, but it basically means getc(stdin) > should block until a carriage return is entered). Canonical mode also > allows the user to backspace over his mistakes -- which also doesn't work > with v1.0. > > Pre-compiled programs distributed with Cygwin v1.0 such as bc.exe, dc.exe, > etc all rely on canonical mode. It is especially annoying to not be able > to backspace over my mistakes with dc.exe -- I have to kill the program > each time and start over. Even if I were to modify the souce code to > replace getc(stdin) with fgets(...), I still wouldn't be able to backspace... > > And for that matter, you can't backspace with sh.exe, either. I can't > believe I'm the first person to notice this. > > Hey Cygnus, are you reading this? Is there any way we can fix canonical > mode for v1.0? > Uhm... you've got something not set correctly. What is your TERM variable set to? It should read TERM=cygwin. A paste of the output of `cygcheck -s -v -r' would be helpful. ===== Earnie Boyd Cygwin Newbies, please visit __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com