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From:	Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Aliases no longer defined?
Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:15:13 -0500
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Peter Davis wrote:
> I recently switched from Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 to Windows XP.  I
> installed cygwin freshly on both systems.  Now I'm noticing that on both
> systems, .bashrc seems to be completely ignored.  I haven't changed this
> file at all, but suddenly the aliases I define and export are not
> defined when I try to type them at the shell prompt.
> 
> If I do
> 
> 	source ~/.bashrc
> 
> it works without error, but the aliases are *still* not defined.  I
> noticed by running 'cygcheck -s' that the new systems seem to have DLL
> build 1.3.22 (3/18/2003), while the older ones were running build 1.3.20
> (2/18/2003).  However, nothing else has changed.  This used to work, but
> now doesn't.
> 
> Any clues?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -pd

What does your /etc/passwd look like?



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