Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/12/11/04:45:52
After mounting to text=binary you have to get rid of all \r in all
scripts. Use the following with caution (ie: only on scripts):
cp scriptfile /tmp/scriptfile
tr -d "\r" < /tmp/scriptfile > scriptfile
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>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:34:47 -0400
>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>From: "Bruce S. Skinner" <skinner AT drea DOT dnd DOT ca>
>Subject: mount -b C: / breaks /etc/profile &friends
>
>I have been having troubling building the terminfo database required by
>ncurses and have been told I need to have disks mounted text=binary for
it
>to work. After I do "mount -b c: /" bash starts really having trouble.
>All the alias' defined in .bash_profile break and when I set PS1 the
cursor
>goes back to the beginning of line after writing the bash prompt. It
>appears that carriage returns are being read from the .bash_profile as
data
>instead of indicating end of line. Is there a fix for this?
Environment is
>gnuwin32 b18.5 & WinNt4.0.
>
>regards :-)
>Bruce S.
>
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