Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com X-Mailer: 21.1 "20 Minutes to Nikko" XEmacs Lucid (patch 2) (via feedmail 8 I); Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" To: "McCunney, Dennis" Cc: "'Mike Kuhl'" , "Cygwin Mailing list (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Tcl exposes problem with cygwin/echo? References: <65CAA822B707D211AD430008C7F40FED1F85B2@EXCHANGERSW2> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: "Dr. Volker Zell" Date: 14 Jul 1999 09:26:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: "McCunney, Dennis"'s message of "13 Jul 99 18:37:50 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 37 >>>>> "McCunney" == McCunney, Dennis writes: >> -----Original Message----- From: Mike Kuhl >> [mailto:mkuhl@pixstream.com] Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 5:19 >> PM To: 'cygwin mailing list' Subject: Tcl exposes problem with >> cygwin/echo? >> >> I seem to be having a problem. I'm using cygwin B20. When I >> invoke a tcl interactive shell, and do this: >> >> % set test {"This is a test."} % exec echo $test >> >> I get this: >> >> "This is a test.\ >> >> Under unix, I get the expected behaviour: >> >> "This is a test." >> >> Can anyone explain what the problem is, or what I'm doing >> wrong? Any help would be much appreciated. I recompiled tcl from the Cygwin distribution as a X11 app by undefining __WIN32__ In my case I get: vzell:/tmp> tclsh % set test {"This is a test."} "This is a test." % exec echo $test "This is a test." Ciao Volker -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com