Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: recovering cygwin settings after a Win98 anomaly Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:38:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes What happens in command.com? If it happens there, it's a Windows - not Cygwin - problem. What happens in Notepad? I cannot remember for sure, but there is "international" keyboard, that allows one to insert accented characters with a US keyboard. For instance, IIRC, `e would give a e-grave, to get a simple ` follow the ` with a space. If the letter following the "accent" is illegal for that "accent" one get a system beep. If, in bash, following a troublesome character with a space gives just the character, this is a possible cause of your problem. Go into Control Panel | Keyboard and see if changing your keyboard fixes your problem. -----Original Message----- From: jon wild [mailto:wild AT fas DOT harvard DOT edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:27 PM To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: recovering cygwin settings after a Win98 anomaly Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] > mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive" > mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin" "/" > mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/bin" "/usr/bin" > mount -f -s -b "C:/cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib" [snip] > > Please let the list know if this works for you. Igor - it worked perfectly, everything is back to normal. Thanks so much. After such a good first experience with this list I might be pushing it if I ask about another, much less important problem, but I'll try anyway since once again I can't find an answer in the FAQ: I'm running cygwin under win98 and every time I type the double-quote character in the cygwin shell, the very next character I type will cause a second double-quote to appear before the character typed, and I'll get a system beep. I am spared the beep if I type the same character a second time myself. This happens with a few other non-alphabetic characters as well (off the top of my head: single quote, backtick, tilde). I've learned to type these characters twice, followed by the backspace key to get rid of the one I didn't want, and this way I avoid the irritating beep, but I guess there is probably a better solution... Thanks again Igor --Jon Wild -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/