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Please help! (was: Re: One system works, the other doesn't)


Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> wrote in 
Xns936E679AF108Fpdworldstdcom@80.91.224.249:">news:Xns936E679AF108Fpdworldstdcom@80.91.224.249:

> I have two systems running Cygwin: an NT4 (home) machine and a XP
> (work) machine.  I've tried to make them as similar as possible, but
> there are apparently some differences that elude me.  Specifically:
> 
> 1) At home (NT4), .bashrc is automatically run when I fire up a bash
>    shell.  At work, it doesn't, though I can manually run it with
>    source ~/.bashrc
> 
> 2) At home (NT4), the simple perl script I use to filter mutt messages
>    before displaying them works beautifully.  At work (XP), the
>    messages all display with ^M at the end of every line.  (This is
>    recent ... since I just re-installed Cygwin on this machine.  It
>    *used* to work.)
> 
> 3) At home, mutt has no trouble telling me which MH mailboxes contain
>    new mail.  At work, however, this function of mutt doesn't work.
>    Once I open the mailbox, the new messages are correctly marked with
>    'N', but when I attempt to change mailboxes, mutt doesn't prompt me
>    as it should.
> 
> I've compared the output from 'cygcheck -s -v' on the two machines,
> but I didn't see anything obvious.  (The work machine has more
> packages installed.)  Can anyone suggest what might be responsible for
> these quirks?
> 
> Currently, the NT4 (home) machine is working *better* than the XP
> (work) one.  Since I'll be upgrading the home machine to a new box
> running XP shortly, I'd like to find out what's going on.

I've had two people ask to see the output of `cygcheck -svr` on both 
machines, which I dutifully posted to this list.  No response.

This problem has now gotten more urgent because I'm trying to move the home 
setup onto a new XP system.  Same results: everything which works on my NT4 
setup does *not* work on the new XP setup.  I would really love to know 
what the key Cygwin setup issues are, so I can fix this.  Please help!

One difference seems to be with Perl.  When I write to stdout from Perl, it 
uses DOS/Windows line endings (^M^J) instead of Unix ones.  So all the 
nifty Perl scripts that I call from mutt, such as the display_filter, don't 
work.  I did choose Unix text files when I installed Cygwin, and everything 
is mounted in binmode.  As far as I can tell, other applications are 
working correctly, but Perl isn't.  If I disable the mutt display_filter, 
mutt displays messages just fine.  With the (Perl) filter enabled, though, 
I get ^M at the end of every line.

Also, for some reason mutt can't detect which mailboxes have new messages 
on this system, but it can on the old NT4 system.  Any clues about that?

Another thing:  For some reason, mutt can't find some of the Perl scripts 
I've been using, even though I can see them and cat them from the shell 
prompt.

Can anyone give me a clue what's happening here?  I'm tearing my hair out.

Thank you.

-pd


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