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Re: Unable to Type Lower Case e in the Bash Window
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: Unable to Type Lower Case e in the Bash Window
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 12:35:26 -0500
- Cc: Gus Baldauf <gus at transbay dot net>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <19991122172746.19900.rocketmail@web119.yahoomail.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 09:27:46AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 05:57:42AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> >--- Gus Baldauf <gus@transbay.net> wrote:
>>>>I just installed Cygwin 1.0. When I open a bash window and I try to
>>>>type
>>or
>>>>paste the lower case letter e, nothing appears in the window and the
>>computer
>>>>beeps at me. For example, I can not enter the commands cygcheck, exit,
>>echo
>>>>or set. All other upper and lower case letters work fine.
>>>>
>>>-8<-
>>>
>>>I checked the output from cygcheck. There is a bug in the Install
>>>process
>>that
>>>leaves you with two different records in the registry for the /
>>>directory. Change to the bin directory containing umount and mount,
>>>then do `./umount /
>>&&
>>>./mount 'e:\' /' and that should resolve the problem.
>>
>>Earnie, I only see one mount point in the cygcheck output and it is
>>correct:
>>
>>E:\Cygwin / system binmode
>
>Oh, sorry the information below is what confused me. However, Gus'
>b20.1 setup was in text mode and he now has binmode.
You're right. I missed this.
So, the corrct solution is probably something like this:
umount /
mount -f -b e:\cygwin /
mount q:\homedirectory-containing-inputrc /whatever-it-should-be
cgf
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