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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:34:20 -0800
To: jsb AT hal-pc DOT org, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: termcap problem in RXVT?
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Jon,

For whatever reason, you've managed to invoke /bin/sh (ash) instead of BASH 
in the RXVT emulator context. Ash doesn't interpret the escape sequences in 
the PS1 variable set up by /etc/profile to make the prompt conform to 
someone's idea of utility and aesthetic merit.

I don't know why on this machine you're getting a different shell than on 
the others, but I'd investigate spurious or extraneous settings of the 
SHELL environment variable, possibly originating at the Windows system level.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 15:20 2002-03-18, BERNDT, JON wrote:
>I have installed CygWin on numerous machines using teh nice setup program 
>at cygwin.com. Recently, however, I have installed CygWin on two machines 
>(one a W2K machine and the other a Win98SE machine) and when I tried to 
>run rxvt I got strange behavior for the prompt. If I bring up a bash shell 
>immediately after installing, then type "rxvt" at the bash prompt, this is 
>what shows up in the rxvt console:
>
>--- start ---
>\[\033]0;\w\007
>\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
>$
>--- end ---
>
>I am at a loss to explain what to do. This has not happened to me in prior 
>cygwin installs. I checked the FAQ and the mailing list archives for 
>March, but could not find any reference to anything new that should have 
>caused this.
>
>Jon


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