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Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:23:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
cc: Angelo Graziosi <Angelo DOT Graziosi AT roma1 DOT infn DOT it>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin
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On Fri, 13 May 2005, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to Angelo Graziosi on 5/12/2005 5:20 PM:
> > Summarizing I want to know if the problems I described
> >
> >   are bugs of some Cygwin packages (should I wait for new upgrades?)
>
> If you don't mind the wait, you can wait for the upgrade of base-files,
> which hopefully will fix the issue of the poor defaults.

base-files has only started updating unmodified /etc/profile rather
recently.  If Angelo's /etc/profile comes from an earlier version of
base-files, the upgrade won't do anything for him.  Of course, if he's
modified /etc/profile, the upgrade won't work in any case.

> >   are the normal behaviour of Cygwin, so that if I do not like them
> >   I should change the configuration in .bashrc or .bash_profile or
> >   .inputrc or in /etc/profile.
>
> If you are impatient, delete the line that calls "stty erase '^?'" in
> /etc/profile, or add a line in your ~/.bash_profile that calls "stty
> erase ^H".  Changing /etc/profile means you will not get automatic
> updates from the next base-files release, so I would recommend doing it
> in ~/.bash_profile.

If /etc/profile is old, and hasn't been changed by the user, deleting it
before upgrading base-files would probably be a good idea...  Once a new
/etc/profile is installed, it'll be kept up-to-date automatically (unless,
of course, it's been modified, as Eric mentioned).
	Igor
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