commandline application not outputting anything

[eeyrjmr]

I use GIT alot (in win and lin) as well as Xming (for remote Xwindows)

I mainly work on 3 Windows boxes (work desktop, work laptop, home desktop [this is mainly linux but do boot win])
The commands of interest are: plink.exe and ssh.exe. The problem is these commands output on text on some machines???

Work Desktop - XP-Pro:
Installed Portable Putty and msysgit
All operate as expected
If I run plink.exe from cmd.exe I get the help
If I run ssh.exe from the cmd.exe I get the help

Work Laptop - XP-Pro:
Installed Portable Putty and msysgit
All does NOT operate as expected
plink.exe output no text on the commandline BUT if I do: plink eeyrjmr@192.168.0.2 ... it does output plink returns
same with ssh.exe

Home desktop: XP-Home
All does NOT operate as expected
neither plink or ssh output any text whats even worse is using the same settings from my work laptop it still doesn't work. Without some form of STDOUT/STDERR output i am unable to diagnose what the problems is to fix???


anyone know what would cause a cmd line utility (which works on other machines) to not write txt to STDOUT? I am guessing it is a dependancy issue BUT windows isn't geared up to be helpful to track such things down :(

All machines are fully updated (and fully legit before you ask). The Home Desktop (which is more of a machine) had hardly gotten used anyway (more for gaming then anything else - but due to DoW2 I boot into weekly)

any help would be appreciated

[eeyrjmr]

Ok the plot thickens on the machines where the applications do not work I changed it to "windows 2000 compatability mode" and now it runs as expected - well has a text output, not connected to a network to test if it functions as expected

So it looks like 2 of my machines are missing some windows dependancies WHICH when forced to run in compatability mode, the "compatability dll's" have the required functionality

any ideas?