problem running jshell 12 or later using AT&T's UWIN ksh as its environment on Win 10

[Robert Field]

The Jline version was updated in JDK 12.  You can configure Jline with your 
terminal type.

Hope that helps,
Robert


On June 19, 2019 7:27:31 AM "Yacobellis, Robert" <ryacobellis at luc.edu> wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> This is probably not something you can fix for me, since I doubt that many 
> others are using AT&T's UWIN to simulate Unix on Windows 10 ...
>
> Through Java 11.0.3 I've been able to run jshell with no problems under ksh 
> using UWIN; starting with Java 12 and through Java 13ea today running it 
> throws an exception - I've attached captured outputs that indicate the 
> PosixTerminal is unable to parse "columns".
>
> Do you have any suggestions about how I might change the environment of 
> jshell to get this to work? I think I remember some jline-related changes 
> that were put into Java 12 that might be causing this interaction problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Yacobellis
> Loyola University Chicago
>
> PS jshell 12 & 13ea work fine in a Windows 10 cmd console, so I can always 
> run it there if I have to.