From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: M Dipperstein To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: tty strangeness and other questions Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:21:00 -0000 Message-id: In-reply-to: < 3.0.3.32.19990303144509.034513b0@appr > References: <3.0.3.32.19990303144509.034513b0@appr> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00081.html I've been quietly using Cygwin B20.1 on a windows 95 PC for a few months, and it's been working pretty much as I expected, except for 3 annoyances that I haven't been able to resolve. I've check the archives, and I haven't found any comments on them, so either I live in my own special world, or I'm overlooking the obvious. Any assistance would be appreciated. 1) When I set CYGWIN to include the tty option, my A: drive will be searched for a command before aliases and other parts in my path, even though A: is not in my path. This happens when I haven't even accessed A:. If I remove the tty from the CYGWIN setting, this problem doesn't happen. In cygnus.bat, I set my path as follows: SET PATH=c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\h-i586-cygwin32\bin;c:\usr\local\bin;%PATH% which expands to: c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\h-i586-cygwin32\bin;c:\usr\local\bin;c:\windows; c:\windows\command;c:\texmf\miktex\bin;c:\perl\bin;c:\jdk.1.1.5\bin;. and "echo $PATH" shows the following: /CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN:/USR/LOCAL/BIN:/WINDOWS:/WINDOWS/COMMAND: /TEXMF/MIKTEX/BIN:/PERL/BIN:/JDK11~1.5/BIN:. Nowhere in there is there an a: or //a. By the way, why don't I have //c's in my path? 2) When I set CYGWIN to include the tty option, using the arrow keys in a bash console will scroll through my bash command history, but my command line will not show the command, until I press a displayable key (I've developed the habit of hitting the space bar). Similarly, when I use left and right arrows, I can change my location within the command line, but the cursor position on my screen does not change. I've tried it with TERM set to cygwin, linux, and ansi.sys terminals, and the behavior doesn't change. 3) I'm using Michael Hirmke's precompiled ncurses library, and I've converted the cygwin termcap to a terminfo. Occasionally (~25% of the time), when I switch away from my bash console to another windows program, and back, the ncurses package reports that COLS is 84 instead of 80. Switching to another window and back will make COLS 80 again. I'm pretty sure my cygwin terminfo is okay, because the problem happens when TERM is set to linux as well. 4) I'm using Pierre A. Humblet's precompiled man, with Michael Hirmke's precompiled groff, and the hyphen for words that are split between lines is displayed as . I'm pretty sure this problem is in the latin font files. I've tried making character 0255 the hyphen character, but I'm obviously doing something wrong, because the real hyphen character becomes when I make that change. Thanks in advance for any help, and thanks for all the precompiled packages, they've saved me all kinds of grief. -Mike -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: M Dipperstein To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: tty strangeness and other questions Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <3.0.3.32.19990303144509.034513b0@appr> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00081.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.vy7OjHvm1xhm8pbXWUfl_Ob1uDlGn8WY8t6jeORFvXM@z> I've been quietly using Cygwin B20.1 on a windows 95 PC for a few months, and it's been working pretty much as I expected, except for 3 annoyances that I haven't been able to resolve. I've check the archives, and I haven't found any comments on them, so either I live in my own special world, or I'm overlooking the obvious. Any assistance would be appreciated. 1) When I set CYGWIN to include the tty option, my A: drive will be searched for a command before aliases and other parts in my path, even though A: is not in my path. This happens when I haven't even accessed A:. If I remove the tty from the CYGWIN setting, this problem doesn't happen. In cygnus.bat, I set my path as follows: SET PATH=c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\h-i586-cygwin32\bin;c:\usr\local\bin;%PATH% which expands to: c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\h-i586-cygwin32\bin;c:\usr\local\bin;c:\windows; c:\windows\command;c:\texmf\miktex\bin;c:\perl\bin;c:\jdk.1.1.5\bin;. and "echo $PATH" shows the following: /CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/BIN:/USR/LOCAL/BIN:/WINDOWS:/WINDOWS/COMMAND: /TEXMF/MIKTEX/BIN:/PERL/BIN:/JDK11~1.5/BIN:. Nowhere in there is there an a: or //a. By the way, why don't I have //c's in my path? 2) When I set CYGWIN to include the tty option, using the arrow keys in a bash console will scroll through my bash command history, but my command line will not show the command, until I press a displayable key (I've developed the habit of hitting the space bar). Similarly, when I use left and right arrows, I can change my location within the command line, but the cursor position on my screen does not change. I've tried it with TERM set to cygwin, linux, and ansi.sys terminals, and the behavior doesn't change. 3) I'm using Michael Hirmke's precompiled ncurses library, and I've converted the cygwin termcap to a terminfo. Occasionally (~25% of the time), when I switch away from my bash console to another windows program, and back, the ncurses package reports that COLS is 84 instead of 80. Switching to another window and back will make COLS 80 again. I'm pretty sure my cygwin terminfo is okay, because the problem happens when TERM is set to linux as well. 4) I'm using Pierre A. Humblet's precompiled man, with Michael Hirmke's precompiled groff, and the hyphen for words that are split between lines is displayed as . I'm pretty sure this problem is in the latin font files. I've tried making character 0255 the hyphen character, but I'm obviously doing something wrong, because the real hyphen character becomes when I make that change. Thanks in advance for any help, and thanks for all the precompiled packages, they've saved me all kinds of grief. -Mike -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com