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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:21:57 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Strange sh prompt
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 08:24:42AM +0100, Frederic Darboux wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I have just installed cygwin on my new computer.
> Now, when I use sh, the prompt looks like :
> 
> $ sh
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $ 
> 
> It seems "\[\033]0;\w\..." is the value of the PS1 environment variable.
> I looked for that on the mailing list archives and could just figured
> out other users have the same PS1 value.
> I re-installed the ash package, but this strange problem is still here.
> I think the only thing I modify myself since the installation is the
> drive mouting.
> 
> Does somebody have a clue about what I did wrong ?

Use bash as login shell, not ash.

Corinna

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