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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:52:12 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: tcsh backquote expansion problem
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In-Reply-To: <ur8r81nmd.wl@qzilla.mn.mikan.org>; from kato@goto.info.waseda.ac.jp on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:09:46PM +0900

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:09:46PM +0900, Jun-ya Kato wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm going to report tcsh backquote expansion problem.
> 
> I've installed cygwin-1.3.4-4 and tcsh-6.10.00-3 on Windows XP box.
> 
>   # .cshrc
>   set myname=`hostname`
>   set prompt="${myname}% "
> 
> I put these 2 lines on ~/.cshrc.  However, when tcsh starts up, myname
> variable is always set null.  The output of hostname can't be expanded
> at all.
> 
> Once tcsh starts up, I typed-in command line manually,
> 
>   % echo `hostname`
> 
> It can show my hostname correctly.
> 
> cygwin-1.3.2-1 doesn't cause this problem.  Also when I use bash and
> $HOME/.profile,  They can work with both version of cygwin.dlls.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00485.html

Corinna

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