From: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Cursor appears at start of line rather than end of prompt 25 May 1998 03:01:48 -0700 Message-ID: <19980525004007.4266.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1c.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Jeff Paulsen , gnu-win32@cygnus.com ---Jeff Paulsen wrote: > > > Why might it be, that my cursor appears at the start of each line rather > than the end of the prompt? This was not true three days ago; I have > changed lots of things and have no idea which might have done this. You've changed to binary mounts. The PS1 variable contains a \r as it existed with text mounts. Modify the .bashrc file or what ever file is setting the PS1 variable to _NOT_ have the \r. One way to do this is: cp [file] [junk] tr -d "\r" < [junk] > [file] rm [junk] > > -- > Jeff Paulsen > jeff.paulsen@poorman-douglas.com > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > == - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd@yahoo.com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".