Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:52:12 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tcsh backquote expansion problem Message-ID: <20011109105212.S1099@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from kato@goto.info.waseda.ac.jp on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:09:46PM +0900 On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:09:46PM +0900, Jun-ya Kato wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm going to report tcsh backquote expansion problem. > > I've installed cygwin-1.3.4-4 and tcsh-6.10.00-3 on Windows XP box. > > # .cshrc > set myname=`hostname` > set prompt="${myname}% " > > I put these 2 lines on ~/.cshrc. However, when tcsh starts up, myname > variable is always set null. The output of hostname can't be expanded > at all. > > Once tcsh starts up, I typed-in command line manually, > > % echo `hostname` > > It can show my hostname correctly. > > cygwin-1.3.2-1 doesn't cause this problem. Also when I use bash and > $HOME/.profile, They can work with both version of cygwin.dlls. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00485.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/