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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:29:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Seth Rubin <srubin AT thoughtprocess DOT com>
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Seth Rubin wrote:

> After setting up Cygwin on an XP Home machine, some apps, notably vi and
> postgresql, are erroring out with:
>
>   syntax error: redirection unexpected
>
> Any clue about what to do about this?  Thanks.
> -- Seth

At a guess, you might have an alias that's doing something weird (e.g., a
csh alias in bash).  Look at the output of "type -a vi" and "type -a
postgresql" (if you use bash0.  Also, please read and follow the Cygwin
problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.
	Igor
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