Thank you for your rapid responses. Maybe I have induced an irrelevance
by mentioning my recent upgrade to SP2. I took a look at
cygcheck -s
in the barest possible bash shell (usually I use rxvt) to try to make
sense of what's happening.
The output consists of
package <w1> version <w2> ^M^J
where w1 and w2 are white space and there's some nice background effort
gone into spacing to ensure column alignment.
In my case (why not yours?!) <w2> is approx 160 spaces wide (seen using
od). I find this remarkable and explains the extraordinary newline's
that appear in the output. Also
cygcheck -c
providing
package <w1> version <w2> OK (not)
also has <w2> equal to approx 160 spaces.
("Approx" because of the simultaneous successful efforts at neat column
alignment in the output.)
Fergus
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