On 08/27/2009 06:35 PM, Ken R. Dye wrote:
On a recent fresh install of cygwin, I had problems with
getting the tcsh shell to work. "if: Expression Syntax".
I figured out to invoke it with -V to be verbose on the
system scripts and found a issue with
/etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh having problems with home
directory names that have spaces in them, and since windows
home directories reside in "Documents and Settings" this
should be a problem with *every* install.
This isn't true. '/etc/profile' shows how Cygwin decides what your
home directory is. Only if there is no HOME set in your Windows
environment and no home directory specified in '/etc/profile' for
your user will you end up with the results of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH.
On XP, this will get you into the realm of "Documents and Settings".
For Vista and later, HOMEPATH does not contain spaces.
A little googling on the problem found this:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-04/msg00701.html
so the problem/fix was reported in April 2008.
And indeed fixed. But you'll need to move to the upcoming 1.7 release
to get it. <http://cygwin.com/#beta-test>
Is this cygwin's way of saying "you should be using bash"?
You're not using bash? Are you ill?
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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