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Thomas Wiedmann wrote:
>>> cmd /c cls
>>> doesn't work. It gives the output:
>>> ♀
>>
>>  In a DOS console?
> 
> In the usual console of Windows XP (ok - DOS console) called with
> cd /d %ProgramFiles%\Cygwin\bin
> bash --login -i


  How thoroughly bizarre.  I haven't seen that on 1.5 or 1.7 on XP or W2k or
1.7 on win7beta.  Do you have any kind of extenders or plugins installed?

    cheers,
      DaveK

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