Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <001101c2fb4a$2a6e0440$c99ac250@leper> Reply-To: From: To: Cc: Subject: nano and TERM Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:05:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Possibly this is a slight simplification, but broadly speaking is the following an accurate description of things? Assuming all necessary paths exist, Windows executables (fc, for instance; can't find much else that's any use) can be called from within Cygwin; and vice-versa (ls, md5sum, diff; any number of useful others). That's why find, sort, etc can be problematic, if a user ends up calling the alternative version to that required. Lately (can't remember when it started) I've been unable to use nano from outside Cygwin: I get a "Error opening terminal: cygwin" message. (On the other hand, pico works fine.) Please can you tell me whether this is a minor correct-able glitch in nano or whether there's a deeper problem (like, I've misunderstood the dual-use principle described above). Thank you. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/