[CLUE-Tech] cygwin question

[David Anselmi]

Jeffery Cann wrote:
> Whilst running XF86 from within cygwin on a Windoze 2000 machine at work... I 
> fire up an xterm and attempt to telnet to a UNIX server on our LAN.  The 
> telnet command does not get me to a login prompt.  In fact, there is a pause 
> and then the shell command is returned as if I backgrounded the process 
> (i.e., $ telnet myserver &).  Of course, I didn't background it!

Do you mean that it returns but is still running (is listed by ps) or 
just that it returns immediately?

I just tried it, and I get the same behavior--telnet exits immediately 
and quietly.  My guess is that MS telnet doesn't like xterms.  'which 
telnet' tells me /c/WINDOWS/system32/telnet.  It works fine from a 
cygwin bash window, but not from an xterm.  So you might try finding a 
cygwin telnet client.

Dave