Extra spaces in text files in cygwin

[René Berber]

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.
-- 
René Berber


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