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Subject:  Re: Extra spaces in text files in cygwin
Date:  Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:32:34 -0500
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gmarsha11 wrote:

> I am a brand new user of cygwin and I'm already having troubles.  Wheneve=
r I
> grep or cat or otherwise dump the contents of a text file to stdout, there
> are extra spaces between all characters.  For instance, if file abc.txt
> contains:
>=20
> This is abc file
>=20
> then, `cat abc.txt` returns
>=20
> T h i s  i s  a b c  f i l e
>=20
> Anyone know what might cause this?

The font your terminal is using.

Are you using rxvt? try setting the font as a parameter.  Which fonts=20
are available? depends, I have Cygwin/X installed with all the fonts,=20
and some extra, rxvt gets the name of the font it uses from=20
/etc/defaults/etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt or URxvt.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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