Re: lynx-dev Problem with Cygwin port under bash shell

[Frédéric L . W . Meunier]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Doug Kaufman wrote:
>
> > I compiled the 2.8.5pre.3 code under Cygwin as a static binary using
> > ncurses 5.3(20030809 patch) and OpenSSL 0.9.7-stable and noted a few
> > problems.
> >
> > 1. When running in a Cygwin bash shell, after I quit lynx no typed
> > characters echo to the screen. I have to run "stty sane" to fix this.
>
> That could be an ncurses problem, or it could be a cygwin problem.
> Switching modes on the console window is rather fragile (several bugs).
> Actually the last time I saw cygwin's console window working without
> noticeable errors was mid-2002.
>
> If it's an ncurses bug I should be able to observe and correct it
> (will do that).

Not an ncurses problem, right ? I could reproduce it with
ELinks, which doesn't use it at all.

Removing the 'tty' from CYGWIN fixes / works around it.

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