From:	lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject:	Re: latest coolview.tar.gz from Sergey...
22 Jul 1997 20:46:44 -0700 :
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At 08:29 PM 7/22/97 -0400, Ku Wei wrote:
>1. change to binary mount.
>2. change .bashrc, .bash_profile, and .inputrc to UNIX style format text 
>file. ( I have written two small utilities to do the transferm between 
>DOS style and UNIX style. ) Let me know if you need them to do the 
>transferm for you.
>
>Sincerely,
>Wei Ku
>
<snip>
>
>On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Jerome Gay wrote:
>
>>  I just downloaded the latest coolview.tar.gz from Sergey HP, and install
>> bash 2.01...
>> It looks like bash no longer recognize my old .bashrc file ...
>> and vim-4.6 no longer works....
>> 
>> Any ideas ?
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jerome
>> 
>> "Any given program will expand to fill all available memory"
>> 

This may be Jerome's problem but I will offer another possibility, or at
least something to watch for.  If you create bash functions to supplement
your aliases, be careful!  I'm not sure why but I just found out that a
bash function defined on 1 line generated a syntax error at the end of 
the file it was included in when I sourced it.  The specific error was

bash.EXE: /users/lhall/.bash_alias: line 35: syntax error: unexpected end of
file

This was hard to track down.  The line that caused it was:

viw() { start vim.exe "$*" }

changing it to

viw()
{
        start vim.exe "$*"
}

solved the problem for me.  I don't know why or if this is an issue of
general concern.  I do know, however, that the change was not necessary 
until I switched to Sergey's latest "coolview" DLL and bash 2.01.  It's
not a big deal to make this change but it is also not an obvious change
to make when this error occurs (at least not for me).  Be forewarned!

Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
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