[h-e-w] Emacs in an xterm

[Sarir Khamsi]

I would sometimes like to launch an Emacs session inside an xterm
(from the Cygwin distro) with the following command (at a bash
prompt):

$ emacs -nw -q someFile

but get the error message "emacs: standard input is not a tty." My
$TERM variable is set to "xterm" and $CYGWIN is set to "tty notitle
glob". Any suggestions? Thanks.

Sarir