I get the same rxvt behavior, so I start it with `rxvt -e /bin/bash` Oleg
----- Original Message ----- From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:34 PM Subject: Re: termcap problem in RXVT? > Jon, > > For whatever reason, you've managed to invoke /bin/sh (ash) instead of BASH > in the RXVT emulator context. Ash doesn't interpret the escape sequences in > the PS1 variable set up by /etc/profile to make the prompt conform to > someone's idea of utility and aesthetic merit. > > I don't know why on this machine you're getting a different shell than on > the others, but I'd investigate spurious or extraneous settings of the > SHELL environment variable, possibly originating at the Windows system level. > > Randall Schulz > Mountain View, CA USA > > > At 15:20 2002-03-18, BERNDT, JON wrote: > >I have installed CygWin on numerous machines using teh nice setup program > >at cygwin.com. Recently, however, I have installed CygWin on two machines > >(one a W2K machine and the other a Win98SE machine) and when I tried to > >run rxvt I got strange behavior for the prompt. If I bring up a bash shell > >immediately after installing, then type "rxvt" at the bash prompt, this is > >what shows up in the rxvt console: > > > >--- start --- > >\[\033]0;\w\007 > >\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] > >$ > >--- end --- > > > >I am at a loss to explain what to do. This has not happened to me in prior > >cygwin installs. I checked the FAQ and the mailing list archives for > >March, but could not find any reference to anything new that should have > >caused this. > > > >Jon > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
