Dmitry Babich wrote: > I installed cygwin/X on XP box. When I try to telnet to another machine, I > immediately received prompt back. It looks like telnet do nothing. I tryed > "/?" to receive help - still nothing. > > Note, that ping works fine. > > If I do telnet from Windows cmd window everything works fine. I even tried > to replace c:/WINDOWS/system32/telnet to those from 2k box - the result is > same. > > Output of "which telnet" is: > /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/telnet.
This probably belongs on the main cygwin list (cygwin @ cygwin.com) because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with X11. I have had this happen before, and I believe it's because windows' native ftp program is confused by ptys (which are implemented with pipes internally.) Many native win32 programs react in strange ways if their input/output is attached to a pty, which will be the case if you're running in a rxvt/xterm window or a regular bash command prompt with 'tty' set in your $CYGWIN. The solution is simple, install the inetutils package which includes among other things, a cygwin version of telnet that knows about ptys. Brian