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RE: .bashrc strange behavior


This is a text vs binary mount issue.  I believe user had a binary mounted
disk.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Kevin Plyler
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 6:04 PM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: .bashrc strange behavior
>
>
> I hope this is a simple one, I could not find anything related in
> the mail archive.
>
> We have several PC here running NT4.0SP4
> with Cygwin32 B20.1
>
> one person's $HOME/.bashrc behaves rather strangely
> (blank lines are given :command not found, aliases get garbled,
> 'type' does not work ...)
>
> Here is the begining of some testing I was doing in his .bashrc:
>
> bash-2.02$ cat .bashrc
> #alias ll='ls -la'
> echo 1
> alias r='c -e -'
> echo 2
>
> echo 3
> type ls
> type alias
> bash-2.02$ . .bashrc
> 1
> 2
> : command not found
> 3
> : not found ls
> : not found alias
> bash-2.02$ alias
> 'lias r='c -e -
>
> I have  set:
> CYGWIN='binmode tty'
>
> any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
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