bit by LONG_BIT (was Re: ActivePython 2.1 (build 210))

[D-Man]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:04:22PM -0400, Steve Holden wrote:
| "Courageous" <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote ...
| >
| > Re: Cygwin
| >
| [ ... ]
| >
| > I've seldom had any problems. One thing which sucks is that there
| > is no real support for ctrl-z/bg. You generally have to remember to
| > & everything in advance. This has been so problematic for me that
| > I keep a scripts to intercept certain frequently executed commands
| > which sweeps up their arg lines and then calls the binary with an
| > automatic & appended to it.
| >
| Well, if you insist on using tcsh it may be that you lack the job control
| features. But using /bin/sh on my Win98 box I find that I can indeed
| interrupt a task with ^Z and put it in the background with bg.

I use bash under cygwin -- I see both situations.  If the app is a
cygwin app the job control works (including CPython 2.1!).  If the app
is a win32 app (no cygwin1.dll) the job control doesn't work (except
^C to kill it).

BTW, where did you get a cygwin-aware gvim?  I'd really like that.

-D