Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/07/14:52:44
Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote in
news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0305011045020 DOT 25128-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu:
> On Thu, 1 May 2003, Peter Davis wrote:
>
>> Forgive me if this is a repost. I tried to send this to the Cygwin
>> list the other day, but I never saw it appear.
>>
>> I have two systems running Cygwin: an NT4 (home) machine and a XP
>> (work) machine. I've tried to make them as similar as possible, but
>> there are apparently some differences that elude me. Specifically:
>>
>> 1) At home (NT4), .bashrc is automatically run when I fire up a bash
>> shell. At work, it doesn't, though I can manually run it with
>> source ~/.bashrc
>>
>> 2) At home (NT4), the simple perl script I use to filter mutt
>> messages
>> before displaying them works beautifully. At work (XP), the
>> messages all display with ^M at the end of every line. (This is
>> recent ... since I just re-installed Cygwin on this machine. It
>> *used* to work.)
>>
>> 3) At home, mutt has no trouble telling me which MH mailboxes contain
>> new mail. At work, however, this function of mutt doesn't work.
>> Once I open the mailbox, the new messages are correctly marked
>> with 'N', but when I attempt to change mailboxes, mutt doesn't
>> prompt me as it should.
>>
>> I've compared the output from 'cygcheck -s -v' on the two machines,
>> but I didn't see anything obvious. (The work machine has more
>> packages installed.) Can anyone suggest what might be responsible
>> for these quirks?
>>
>> Currently, the NT4 (home) machine is working *better* than the XP
>> (work) one. Since I'll be upgrading the home machine to a new box
>> running XP shortly, I'd like to find out what's going on.
>>
>> Thanks very much!
>> -pd
>
> Peter,
>
> FYI, this doesn't belong on cygwin-apps...
>
> Can *we* see the output of cygcheck on both machines? And make that
> "cygcheck -svr" (note the "-r" flag). Please attach it as an
> uncompressed text attachment, after making sure your mailer doesn't
> provide text attachments inline.
I have earlier provided the output of `cygcheck -svr` on both machines,
but I haven't heard from you.
>
> My guess about the .bashrc problem is that the machine that runs it
> doesn't give a "--login" flag to bash in cygwin.bat. Alternatively,
> the default .bash_profile tests for the existence of .bashrc, and if
> you have weird permissions, 'test' might return the wrong result.
> Compare the .bash_profile's on both machines (and /etc/profile).
I'll explore this. It's not the most pressing issue, but it was another
symptom of the difference between the two configurations.
> The WAG for the "^M"s is that you've accidentally changed the mount
> type from text to binary on your work machine when you reinstalled.
> The "cygcheck -svr" output should show whether this is the case.
It appears to my untrained eye that both machines have all partitions
mounted binmode. I assumed this would be the correct mode if all my mail
messages use \n as a line separator. However, there seems to be some
disparity between mutt and Perl about what the line separator is/should
be, and I think that's where the problem lies. The filter I wrote is a
simple Perl script that takes every line of stdin and write it to stdout
unless it's a Yahoo! advertisement. This works on the home machine, but
on the work machine gives me extra ^Ms.
Thank you.
-pd
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