From:	Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	BASH startup files
Date:	Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:47:31 +0100
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I have a couple of problems with my installation of BASH, any help
would be appreciated.

Problem 1) 

BASH will not source the startup files _blogin or _bash_login.

Following the instructions in readme.dos, I have set HOME=d:/ and
copied all the supplied startup files from gnu/bash-2.03/dos/ to d:/

_blogin should set the command prompt and print a welcome message, but
this is not happening:

D:\>echo %HOME%
d:/

D:\>bash
bash-2.03$ echo $HOME; pwd
d:/
d:/
bash-2.03$ ls -l _*
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root          267 Dec 30  1996 _bashrc
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root        11402 Aug 27 20:44 _bhist
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root         1018 Apr 19  1997 _blogin
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root           40 Dec 30  1996 _blogout
-rw-r--r--   1 dosuser  root         1378 Apr 19  1999 _inputrc
bash-2.03$

I can confirm, however, that  _bashrc *is* being sourced.  So it seems
for some reason that _blogin is not being found, did I miss something
in the documentation?


Problem 2)

Cursor keys are not being handled properly after a reverse search
(Ctrl-r), they work fine otherwise.  Here's an example:

bash-2.03$ foo
bash: foo: command not found
bash-2.03$

Now type `Ctrl-r' then `f'

bash-2.03$ foo
bash: foo: command not found
(reverse-i-search)`f': foo

Now hit the right cursor key...

bash-2.03$ foo
bash: foo: command not found
bash-2.03$ [Cfoo

and half an escape sequence is inserted.  `Ctrl-f' works as expected. 

Can anyone reproduce this?


I have stripped out virtually everything from my dos setup to make it
as vanilla as possible.  There is no keyboard.sys, display.sys,
ansi.sys, country.sys or in fact anything.sys loaded.  _inputrc must
have been read because pressing F1 prints:

bash-2.03$ Function Key 1

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