Re: Tramp on Windows XP

[Joel Gwynn]

Thanks for the help, guys.  I ended up going with PuTTY and plink,
which seems a bit slower than the old ange-ftp mode, but it works, and
it's more secure.

On 6/23/05, Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:
> Joel Gwynn <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hmm.  eshell certainly does hang.  All I get is this message:
> > Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
> >
> > What's that all about?
> 
> I've done some tests weeks ago. AFAICS, Emacs and processes from
> Cygwin don't cooperate due to terminal settings I don't
> understand. Working combinations are Emacs-provided-by-Cygwin and
> Cygwin processes like OpenSSH, or Emacs outside Cygwin and non-Cygwin
> processes like PuTTY. This behaviour seems to be new for a year or so,
> because it wasn't a problem before.
> 
> See also <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.windows/2721).
> 
> Likely it should be mentioned in the Tramp documentation, as Kai wrote.
> 
> Best regards, Michael.
> 
>