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Date:	Wed, 07 Jun 2000 10:21:58 -0400
From:	Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
Organization:	Dot Hill Systems Corporation
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CC:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	Re: gdb and cywin
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Norman,

Norman Vine wrote:
> Earnie Boyd writes:
> >Well, I see a problem but I don't know how you managed it.
> >I must ask if you set the SHELL environment variable in say
> >.bashrc or somewhere else?
> 
> Good catch !!
> Hmmm...  I don't know.
> 
> The only place I know of where I set SHELL is in config.sys
> SHELL=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:2048 /P
> 
> It is not set in any of
> autoexec.bat
> cygwin.bat
> .bashrc
> .bash_profile

My guess is that your /etc/passwd has \r\n line ends.  Hence, when
bash starts up and reads /etc/passwd, it sets your SHELL variable to
"/bin/bash^M".  If this is your problem, then removing the \r's should
resolve it.

Jason

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