Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/01/14/12:39:19
What happens in command.com? If it happens there, it's a Windows - not
Cygwin - problem. What happens in Notepad?
I cannot remember for sure, but there is "international" keyboard, that
allows one to insert accented characters with a US keyboard. For instance,
IIRC, `e would give a e-grave, to get a simple ` follow the ` with a space.
If the letter following the "accent" is illegal for that "accent" one get a
system beep. If, in bash, following a troublesome character with a space
gives just the character, this is a possible cause of your problem.
Go into Control Panel | Keyboard and see if changing your keyboard fixes
your problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: jon wild [mailto:wild AT fas DOT harvard DOT edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:27 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: recovering cygwin settings after a Win98 anomaly
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
[snip]
> mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive"
> mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin" "/"
> mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin"
> mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib"
[snip]
>
> Please let the list know if this works for you.
Igor - it worked perfectly, everything is back to normal. Thanks so much.
After such a good first experience with this list I might be pushing it if
I ask about another, much less important problem, but I'll try anyway
since once again I can't find an answer in the FAQ:
I'm running cygwin under win98 and every time I type the double-quote
character in the cygwin shell, the very next character I type will cause a
second double-quote to appear before the character typed, and I'll get a
system beep. I am spared the beep if I type the same character a second
time myself. This happens with a few other non-alphabetic characters as
well (off the top of my head: single quote, backtick, tilde). I've learned
to type these characters twice, followed by the backspace key to get rid
of the one I didn't want, and this way I avoid the irritating beep, but I
guess there is probably a better solution...
Thanks again Igor --Jon Wild
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