On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: Corrupt characters in cygwin console (:310) > > I have recently installed cygwin on a Windows98 machine. > In the cygwin console (and also the bash.exe console), I > get corrupt characters after I type every 5 or so letters. > Usually something like \:310, or \316\310. > > These seem to occur at a random frequency, independent of the > actual letters typed, and can be removed by backspacing a few > times. Needless to say this makes it tiresome to type in > commands!! > > Any help much appreciated, > Thanks, > Phil Shepherd
Phil, Do you have Windows configured with an international keyboard layout? If so, then you may be seeing expected behavior, as you get accented characters by pressing 2-key combinations... Otherwise, you might want to report more on your problem by following <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
