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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:24:00 -0400
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Subject: Re: fresh install, tcsh problems
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On 08/27/2009 06:35 PM, Ken R. Dye wrote:
>
> On a recent fresh install of cygwin, I had problems with
> getting the tcsh shell to work.  "if: Expression Syntax".
>
> I figured out to invoke it with -V to be verbose on the
> system scripts and found a issue with
> /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh having problems with home
> directory names that have spaces in them, and since windows
> home directories reside in "Documents and Settings" this
> should be a problem with *every* install.

This isn't true. '/etc/profile' shows how Cygwin decides what your
home directory is.  Only if there is no HOME set in your Windows
environment and no home directory specified in '/etc/profile' for
your user will you end up with the results of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH.
On XP, this will get you into the realm of "Documents and Settings".
For Vista and later, HOMEPATH does not contain spaces.

> A little googling on the problem found this:
>
> 	http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00701.html
>
> so the problem/fix was reported in April 2008.

And indeed fixed.   But you'll need to move to the upcoming 1.7 release
to get it. <http://cygwin.com/#beta-test>

> Is this cygwin's way of saying "you should be using bash"?

You're not using bash?  Are you ill?

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