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From: "Oleg" <oleg_inconnu AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: termcap problem in RXVT?
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:35:14 -0500
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I get the same rxvt behavior, so I start it with `rxvt -e /bin/bash`

Oleg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
To: <jsb AT hal-pc DOT org>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: termcap problem in RXVT?


> 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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