Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 02:00:03 +0100 Message-ID: <2565-Fri06Jul2001020003+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: "Martin van-Eerde" Subject: When will the pipe key be fixed? In-Reply-To: <3B3C48B8.21548.3EF644@localhost> References: <3B3C48B8.21548.3EF644@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id VAA15970 On Friday 29 Jun 01, Martin van-Eerde writes: > Hi, > > I am running Cygwin on Windows ME and since the latest update > cannot get the pipe (|) key to work. Any perl scripts with this > symbol now also refuse to run, stating invalid character. > > I have noticed that someone has fixed this, but it is in a developer > snapshot at the moment. I dont have the skills to get this, when > will an offical update appear? This does not appear to be fixed in the latest snapshot. > Is there another way to get the pipe key to work, I am on a UK > keyboard. The solution, to use rxvt, is now in the FAQ in the "Known Problems" section. It also mentions that the broken pipe '¦' is not a substitute. (Which was the problem with your perl program). Hope this helps. Cheers, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/