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 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:35:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: landocalrissian cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Strange problem with MC (Attn: MC maintainer) In-Reply-To: <009eb5d5e66b68ece5750fc651885d7d@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org> Message-ID: References: <009eb5d5e66b68ece5750fc651885d7d@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org> <05bc3df13cdb341deb6221210b9760aa@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, landocalrissian wrote: > Hello from Gregg C Levine > I did what you suggested Igor. Now I'm getting: > bash: command substitution: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for > matching `" > ' > bash: command substitution: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > It also says that: > /tmp/mc-Gregg: Can't open /tmp/mc-Gregg: No such file or directory > > That from trying to browse a BZIP2 compressed tar file. This is also part of > my original complain. > Did I cause that, by changing something? What can I do to prevent it? Are you sure you copied the change I suggested verbatim? Looks like you reversed the '"' and the '`' in your copy... Make sure line 5 reads MC_PWD="`cat "$MC_PWD_FILE"`" (e.g., by cutting and pasting) and you should be ok. Igor P.S. Oh, and , even if it's the list address. Thanks. > Gregg C Levine landocalrissian atsign att dot net > "This signature isn't here." > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx [mailto:xxxxxxxxx@xxxxx On Behalf Of > > Igor Pechtchanski > > Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 4:37 PM > > To: landocalrissian > > Cc: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX > > Subject: Re: Strange problem with MC (Attn: MC maintainer) > > > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, landocalrissian wrote: > > > > > Hello from Gregg C Levine > > > Here's a funny thing that's been happening ever since I installed Cygwin > > > here, and subscribed to this list: > > > cat: /tmp/mc-Gregg: No such file or directory > > > cat: C: No such file or directory > > > cat: Levine/mc.pwd.1992: No such file or directory > > > > This is a quoting bug in line 5 of the /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh > > script, which says: > > > > MC_PWD="`cat $MC_PWD_FILE`" > > > > This should be > > > > MC_PWD="`cat "$MC_PWD_FILE"`" > > > > MC maintainer, please note. In the meantime, you can fix it in your local > > copy. > > Igor > > > > > As all of you can see, the program is attempting to parse the name that tmp > > > lives in, inside my Documents and Setting folder, and then inside the local > > > settings folder. And since the folder with my name on it is considered a > > > "system folder", with those requirements and privleges, I can't rename it. > > > What's interesting, is that it works normally, except for activities > > > regarding access to the tmp directory. Are there any work arounds? If I'm > > > bringing this to the wrong list, then I'll be happy to resend it to the > > > proper one. > > > Gregg C Levine landocalrissian atsign att dot net > > > "This signature asks, "Where am I?"." -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- 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/