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According to Frank Illenseer on 10/5/2006 1:08 AM:
>> 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

Oh right :(  It's a shame that 'set -o' and 'shopt' have different
namespaces.  It sounds like I should promote igncr to set -o status
instead.  OK, look for a bash-3.1-10 that does this...

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