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Re: Extra spaces in text files in cygwin


gmarsha11 wrote:

I am a brand new user of cygwin and I'm already having troubles.  Whenever I
grep or cat or otherwise dump the contents of a text file to stdout, there
are extra spaces between all characters.  For instance, if file abc.txt
contains:

This is abc file

then, `cat abc.txt` returns

T h i s i s a b c f i l e

Anyone know what might cause this?

The font your terminal is using.


Are you using rxvt? try setting the font as a parameter. Which fonts are available? depends, I have Cygwin/X installed with all the fonts, and some extra, rxvt gets the name of the font it uses from /etc/defaults/etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt or URxvt.
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René Berber



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