Re: Interactive subprocess output not echoed until process ends

i don't know if this can work at all under cmd.exe.  there is no equivalent of a
`pty' under windows. (cygwin simulates pty's)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]>
To: "Daniel E. Fineman" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: Interactive subprocess output not echoed until process ends


> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel E Fineman <[email protected]> writes:
>
>     Daniel> If you start a shell, and then in that shell, start an
>     Daniel> interactive sub-process (i.e. 'telnet' or 'mysql'), the
>     Daniel> user won't see the output of the subprocess until the
>     Daniel> subprocess ends.
>
> This is likely to be either a misconfigured or out-and-out broken
> shell rather than an XEmacs problem.  Most of the XEmacs Windows
> developers live in shell buffers.
>
>     Daniel> Is there any way to get the subprocess's output to be
>     Daniel> echoed immediately?
>
> For me (Windows 2000, XEmacs 21.4.12, 21.5.12), starting XEmacs and
> typing M-x shell does the trick.  Shell is Cygwin bash.
>
> Please send a full bug report using M-x report-emacs-bug, and don't
> forget to tell us the values of your SHELL and COMSPEC environment
> variables, and (if available ) the version of the shell.
>
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