Jason,
Adding a line Set CYGWIN="notty" in the Cygwin-Tcsh.bat file now enables me
to run Enthought python. Thank you for your help! I like this version
because it has the Scipy packages, etc pre-installed.
-Roger Jones
"Jason Tishler" <jason@tishler.net> wrote in message
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> Roger,
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:32:14AM -0700, RMJ wrote:[color=green]
> > After installing Enthought's python and typing 'python' from within
> > cygwin the program hangs with no output. I do not remember this being
> > the case with earlier versions of Enthought python. Is this version
> > not compatible with cygwin? Or, is there some configuration file that
> > needs changing? It does run successfully with 'python somecode.py'
> > -but without printing out intermediate results.[/color]
>
> There are some known "tty" issues when running native Win32 programs
> under Cygwin. They typical manifest themselves under rxvt and (IIRC)
> when CYGWIN=tty. Try using bash (instead of rxvt) and CYGWIN=notty.
>
> BTW, Cygwin Python does not have any of these issues. If you don't need
> any Win32 Python features, then you may want to use this version
> instead.
>
> Jason
>
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