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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:34:58 -0500
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
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On 1/24/2014 2:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> I'm on Cygwin 1.7.26 on Win7.
>
> I run mintty with "C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login".
>
> Every minute or so, or randomly, my mintty shell prompt gets the string
> "8~" inserted. If I leave the shell there, it will end up with a string of
> them. What might be causing this?

Check the archives.  I think there was a similar report that finally
resolved itself as an overly zealous virus checker or something similar.

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Larry

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