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>Or even experiment with the SHELLOPTS environment variable.  If you set it
>in windows, even the first run of bash will obey igncr; or, from within
>bash, if you do 'export SHELLOPTS' to convert it from a shell variable to
>an environment variable, then further bash invocations will inherit the
>setting of this option, without having to edit every script.

This would be a good place for the "igncr" if it worked!

If i set this variable in windows to the value of just "igncr" I get the 
following error upon starting the bash:

    bash: igncr: invalid option name

So I looked in the man pages for bash:

      SHELLOPTS
             A  colon-separated  list of enabled shell options.  Each word 
in
             the list is a valid argument  for  the  -o  option  to  the  
set
             builtin command (see SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).  The 
options
             appearing in SHELLOPTS are those reported as on by set  -o.   
If
             this  variable  is  in the environment when bash starts up, 
each
             shell option in the list will  be  enabled  before  reading  
any
             startup files.  This variable is read-only.

If I type "set -o" then "igncr" is *NOT* listed. Thus I assume this is the 
reason why the SHELLOPTS results in an error.



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