Cygwin B20.1 and tcsh 6.08.00.x

Corinna Vinschen corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de
Sat Feb 13 12:18:00 GMT 1999


George Wu wrote:
> 
> Hi Corinna,
>   I am using your patched tcsh on Windows NT 4.0 (SP 4) with
> cygwin b20.1.  If I run cygwin with a binary mounted root directory
> I am unable to get tcsh to source my ~/.cshrc properly.  With an
> ~/.cshrc containing just 1 newline character I get the following error
> when I try to source it:
> 
>         : Command not found.
> 
>   It looks like tcsh is interpreting the single newline character as
> a command.  I am hoping you have an easy fix for this problem.

Hi George,

the fix is simple: Your .cshrc file contains CR/LF as newline! With
binary mount, you have to use UX-like newline: a single LF character.

Regards,
Corinna




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