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From: "Shelby Cain" <vhorit@email.msn.com>
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Subject: Re: Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:22:59 -0600
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"Tom Lauren" <s2399@htw-dresden.de> wrote in message
news:3C86F4B2.1DB8A60D@htw-dresden.de...
> For example:
> CMDNAME=`basename $0`     -->says : not found. But, as  c.-l. it works.?!
It
> canīt do the command in `ī?
>
> Or:
> stty -echo > /dev/null 2>&1      -->doesnīt recognize at all
>

Tom,

It sounds like the subsequent invoking of the shell isn't getting the proper
environment passed to it.  What happens when you do this:

$ set > main_env.txt
$ bash
$ set > child_env.txt
$ exit
$ diff main_env.txt child_env.txt

Regards,

Shelby Cain






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