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Subject: Re: Can not see what is being typed and cursor does not move
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:50:40 -0400
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"Mark J. Reed" wrote...

> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:10 PM, jose isaias cabrera wrote:
>> jic 15:58:01-> rsync -ru --exclude '*~' jicman AT camello:*.txt ./
>> Password:
>> jic 16:02:44->
>>
>> the cursor does not move and anything typed does not get displayed in the
>> DOS Cygwin bash terminal. However, whatever I type it is being passed to
>> the DOS bash because if I hit enter, the command gets executed.
>>
>> Any idea what is going on?
>
> Yes, though not why.
>
> The rsync command is setting up the terminal so that the password
> doesn't show up when you type it, and for some reason failing to reset
> it to normal afterwards.
Hmmmm... now that you said that, I just ssh'ed to another SunOS box and 
after I logged out, the same thing happens: cannot see what is being typed.

> So, first, the problem will only affect that one window; if you start
> a new Cygwin session, it will behave normally.  Reinstalling Cygwin
> was a bit of an overreaction. :)
True, but, after all the problems I had with Cygwin-X, I thougth I would 
start fresh. ;-)

> Second, you should be able to restore the terminal you're in If you
> type "stty echo" and hit Enter.

stty: standard input: unable to perform all requested operations

is what I get...

> This is the second recent post about a password-prompting program on
> Cygwin not restoring echo; is there perhaps a bug in the latest
> version of ncurses or whatever it's using?
Could be.  So, for now, rsync and ssh are causing this problem.

thanks for the help.

josé 


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