Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040114102121.038e4c80@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: lhall:pop.rcn.com@127.0.0.1 (Unverified) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:21:43 -0500 To: jon wild , cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: recovering cygwin settings after a Win98 anomaly In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-IsSubscribed: yes At 11:26 PM 1/13/2004, jon wild you wrote: >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... Sorry, never seen this. -- Larry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/