in reply to Windows/Cygwin and open2

Some stabs in the dark:

What is $ENV{CYGWIN} set to? If it contains "tty", try changing to "notty" (while no cygwin programs are running).
Does primer3_core write to stderr? What is primer3 and where can we find it?

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Re^2: Windows/Cygwin and open2
by lynx (Novice) on Aug 17, 2004 at 09:02 UTC
    $ENV{CYGWIN} is set to ntsec tty (for sshd), I will try to set it to notty, thanks. Primer3 is a bioinformatics tool to find PCR primers, it can be downloaded as source at http://frodo.wi.mit.edu/primer3/primer3_code.html