On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 03:19:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >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?
Sorry, I obviously missed Larry's reply. 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
