From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: mount -b C: / breaks /etc/profile &friends 11 Dec 1997 04:45:52 -0800 Message-ID: <19971211122348.4620.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: skinner AT drea DOT dnd DOT ca Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com After mounting to text=binary you have to get rid of all \r in all scripts. Use the following with caution (ie: only on scripts): cp scriptfile /tmp/scriptfile tr -d "\r" < /tmp/scriptfile > scriptfile - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- >Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:34:47 -0400 >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >From: "Bruce S. Skinner" >Subject: mount -b C: / breaks /etc/profile &friends > >I have been having troubling building the terminfo database required by >ncurses and have been told I need to have disks mounted text=binary for it >to work. After I do "mount -b c: /" bash starts really having trouble. >All the alias' defined in .bash_profile break and when I set PS1 the cursor >goes back to the beginning of line after writing the bash prompt. It >appears that carriage returns are being read from the .bash_profile as data >instead of indicating end of line. Is there a fix for this? Environment is >gnuwin32 b18.5 & WinNt4.0. > >regards :-) >Bruce S. > > Bruce S. Skinner | skinner AT drea DOT dnd DOT ca >DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT ATLANTIC | norstead AT ns DOT sympatico DOT ca >Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA, B2Y 3Z7 | (902) 426-3100 x205 or 538-1765 >"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed without any >other reason but because they are not already common." John Locke >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".