From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: Loosing the Alt-Gr key when running bash.
25 Jan 1998 14:45:17 -0800
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Hi Kjell.Myksvoll,

>Hello,
>
>After installing b18 on an winnt 4.0 box I can no longer get
>the characters '$', '@' etc. in bash, that is the characters
>that one gets by holding down the Alt-Gr key while pressing
>the correct key.
>
>There is no problem getting those characters when running the
>normal shell (COMMAND.COM) or in other apps.
>
>Does anyone knows what might be wrong here?

Its a bug in bash from the Cygnus b18 package.
To fix it, get the newest coolview and bash from Sergey's site:

        http://miracle.geol.msu.ru/sos/

>
>best regards,
>kmm

Bye.
Michael.
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