From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: mount -b C: / breaks /etc/profile &friends 11 Dec 1997 16:08:41 -0800 Message-ID: <6jdtxWm$pfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 32 DOT 19971210193348 DOT 0098d100 AT firm DOT drea DOT dnd DOT ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Bruce, >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. Sorry not to have mentioned it - you also have to change all your text files from DOS to Unix style line breaks ( -> ) !!! > >regards :-) >Bruce S. Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ - 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".