Terminator problem (1591/3173/1.6.0_13-b03/Windows Vista 6.0 Cygwin 1.7.0/x86 x2)

[Randy]

using a Vista machine - using cygwin 7.0
ftp will not work.
cursor just goes to the next line and stays
Randy

[Martin Dorey]

> ftp will not work.

"which ftp" says /usr/bin/ftp for me. In particular, it doesn't say:

/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/ftp

That behaves as you say, perhaps for the same reason that Microsoft
telnet is broken on Cygwin consoles, which I think is in our FAQ. If
you confirm that it's the case, I'll mention ftp in the same place.

[Martin Dorey]

+list

> However, ftp worked from the Cygwin
> console , but not from Terminator

I was misremembering, sorry - it isn't broken from the Cygwin console, which is a console subsystem window running bash.exe. Microsoft telnet, and seemingly ftp, is just broken in Windows subsystem applications. The existing Faq item, for telnet, is:

http://software.jessies.org/salma-hayek/cygwin-problems.html#heading_toc_j_4

If Microsoft ftp is anything like as limited as Microsoft telnet, then you'd be doing yourself a favor by installing the Cygwin version. Never having used either ftp, mind, I can't say more.

On quitting groovysh:

> Terminator stops working.

So the window goes blank and the menus etc stop responding? If not, then it's unlikely to be Terminator that has stopped working. Perhaps choosing Reset from the right-click menu would sort things out. Perhaps "stty sane" is needed.

----- Original Message -----
From: Randy <ra...@hobartsprinting.com>
To: Martin Dorey
Sent: Tue Oct 27 20:27:47 2009
Subject: Re: [terminator-users] Terminator problem (1591/3173/1.6.0_13-b03/Windows Vista 6.0 Cygwin 1.7.0/x86 x2)

My path was /cygdrive/c/directory -- using windows ftp and not cygwin ftp.
However, ftp worked from the Cygwin console , but not from Terminator
Console.
When I enter env - the path vars and paths are the same in both Cygwin
Console and Terminator Console.

One other thing when I was playing.
groovysh (which is a windows install -not cygwin) will run in Terminator
but when using - quit - Terminator stops working.
groovysh - Groovy console like - python or irb
Randy

[Martin Dorey]

>
http://software.jessies.org/salma-hayek/cygwin-problems.html#heading_toc
_j_4

Now updated for ftp too.

On quitting groovysh:

>> Terminator stops working.

> So the window goes blank and the menus etc stop responding?

Having downloaded the 30 MiB installer and clicked through its many
screens, I can say "not for me". Whatever I type into groovysh, be it
"quit" or otherwise, groovysh doesn't do anything. Ctrl-C gets me back
to the bash prompt with anything I've typed still in the input buffer.
objdump -p on the binary reveals that, like Microsoft telnet and
Microsoft ftp, it's a console subsystem program. Perhaps I should
broaden the Faq item still further.