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Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Yes, kill them! No mercy! > done. Another problem I had was described and solved some days ago: > > (2) On the telnet client machine (Win95) I run the > > Windows telnet client to connect to the Cygwin telnet > > server and this works OK. However the telnet client > > doesn't read the PS1 environment variable set in > > /etc/profile properly, it just echos the text verbatim. > > Is there anything I can do to fix this? > > Fix the /etc/passwd file on the server side. The problem > is probably that you don't have that /etc/passwd file or > that the login shell mentioned in the file is `/bin/sh' > while you're expecting /bin/bash as your login shell. It took me really a long time to find that message. I searched for fixing wrong key bindings, escape sequences, telnet transmitting 8-bit characters and all this stuff. I never got the idea that my login shell was wrong. So: I strongly suggest to add the above mail snippet to the FAQ's since I suppose that a lot of people have these problems. A helping question could be: "When telnetting to the cygwin machine, special keys and escape sequences are wrongly interpreted by 'bash'. What's wrong?" Thanks for the great cygwin suite! Regards, Hans ___________________________ Hans Schlenker http://www.first.gmd.de/~hs -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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