From: mrp AT spartan DOT pei DOT edu ("Mr.P")
Subject: cat << EOF under bash [cygwin32 beta 17.1, NT 4.0]
22 Dec 1996 20:36:29 -0800
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I don't know too much about bash [consider me somebody trying to get
something written for Unix compiled under NT...the easy way], but the
problem is like this:

Executing a "cat << xxx" as you normally would in Unix does not give you
the expected result. Instead, you get a "no such file or directory"
error.

i.e.

bash$ cat << EOF
> Testing
> EOF
bash: xxxxxxxx: No such file or directory
bash$

The xxxxxxxx is a number which seems to have no meaning (it doesn't
match my free HD space or memory), but it does seem to stay very close
to a point. On my system, running the above example gives me 49051076,
and attempting to use a configure script gives numbers between 49133124
and 49084484.

In addition, with configure scripts, I don't get any Makefile when it's
finished.

This problem is not debilitating, but it's a bit annoying...
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