On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:57:46PM +0000, KARR, DAVID wrote: >> On Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM, Larry Hall wrote: >>>On 1/24/2014 2:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote: >>>I'm on Cygwin 1.7.26 on Win7. >>> >>>I run mintty with "C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login". >>> >>>Every minute or so, or randomly, my mintty shell prompt gets the string >>>"8~" inserted. If I leave the shell there, it will end up with a >>>string of them. What might be causing this? >> >>Check the archives. I think there was a similar report that finally >>resolved itself as an overly zealous virus checker or something >>similar. > >Any idea what to search for? I've already searched the internet and >the cygwin archives several months back with obvious search strings.
Wow, I agree with Larry that we've seen this before and I thought it was a virus checker but I can't find a search term for this either. I searched for "site:cygwin.com mintty" for the last three months but... nuthin. Could you try turning off your virus check to see if that helps? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
