From: mchase@ix.netcom.com (Michael A. Chase) Subject: Re: bug in bash with sergey's latest patches? 3 Nov 1997 06:33:53 -0800 Message-ID: <01bce6ee$1389e3a0$f5528989.cygnus.gnu-win32@prog017744070-3.boeing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Nicholas Mitchell" , It looks like your are getting a CR at the end of the output from hostname. To check my guess, try: echo " '$HOST' " echo " '$DISPLAY' " If I'm right, you'll see something like ' 'dulcea :0.0 'dulcea I don't see the effect with Sergey's 971029 cygwin.dll. Mac :}) -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Mitchell To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Date: Monday, October 13, 1997 18:40 Subject: bug in bash with sergey's latest patches? > >bash, with the Sergey's latest patches, seems to have a bug. From the >command line, this works: > > % export HOST=`hostname` > % printenv HOST > DULCEA # this is fine, notice all caps > % export DISPLAY=$HOST:0.0 > % printenv DISPLAY > DULCEA:0.0 > >but if I stick these two lines in my .bashrc > export HOST=`hostname` > export DISPLAY=$HOST:0.0 > >I get this: > % printenv HOST > dulcea # fine, but notice lower case, now > % printenv DISPLAY > :0.0ea # oops! - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".