I looked through the Archives and the FAQs and problems similar to this have been reported in the past. I tried various combinations of TERM=ansi, TERM=cygwin, CYGWIN=tty, CYGWIN=notty but none of these seem to have corrected my problem.
I'm running Cygwin 1.3.5, NT 4.0 SP6a. The problem is that the Cygwin apps (cat, telnet, perl, etc.) do not allow command editing when run in a console window. In particular, the Backspace key inserts a Ctrl-H, and the arrow keys move the cursor around and insert their escape sequences. bash does not exhibit this behaviour, probably because it does its own line editing. I had been running Cygwin B20 and this problem does not occur with the apps that come with that package. I can run "cat" from the NT Start->Run... dialog and cat will still not have line editing. I would have to presume that there's some setting or configuration for the Cygwin DLL which I need to change to make this work. Does anyone know of any settings which could possibly cause this behavior? Thanks! --Tom Porcher -- 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/