RE: [Mingw-users] MSYS beginner report

[Brian K. <bk...@on...>]

I had this problem at first as well, what I did to fix it was to unzip
the msys again, but this time go into Winzip(or whatever utility) and
make sure it isn't converting cr to crlf (in winzip I went into
Options->Configuration and unchecked TAR file smart CR/LF conversion)
This was puzzling at first, but once I found the snippet in the download
area all of my problems cleared up

Brian Kropf
mailto:bk...@on...


-----Original Message-----
From: min...@li...
[mailto:min...@li...] On Behalf Of Waldemar
Schultz
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:58 AM
To: Earnie Boyd
Subject: [Mingw-users] MSYS beginner report

Hi, experts
My environment is W98SE 4.10.2222 on a Pentium 4
I downloaded "msys-1.0.4-i686-bin.tar.gz" 28.01.02 3516160 =20
After installation I made the following observations:

1)When I click the shortcut as proposed,
a terminal window opens and reads:

': not a valid identifier
': not a valid identifier
': not a valid identifier
': not a valid identifier
: command not found
: command not found
'h: /etc/profile: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `do
'h: /etc/profile: line 20: `for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
sh-2.04$=20

2)The "Del"-Key does not delete a character but echoes a '~'

3)When I resize the window by dragging the upper border up _and_
dragging the lower border down, no keystroke is accepted any longer.
So I can't 'exit' the shell to close the window.

4)Looking at the task manager, I see the following tasks:
sh (lowercase s)
Sh (uppercase S)
Winoldap

5)I miss the tools info.exe or man.exe and more.exe or less.exe

6)The command
sh-2.04$ ls /r
shows correctly
`NETCACHE  TEMP  Temporary Internet Files=B4
note: you can't see that this are three entries _not_ five.

whereas the command
sh-2.04$ ls /r/..
shows
`bin  doc  etc  msys.bat  msys.ico=B4
=20
which obviously is the contents of /.
instead of something like 'invalid directory'


Thanks for any comments and explanations.
And many thanks fopr your great work.

--=20
 Gruss Waldemar Schultz.         sc...@ma...
 Technische Universit=E4t M=FCnchen, Zentrum Mathematik M1, D 80290 =
M=FCnchen
 Tel: +49 (0)89 2892 8226        FAX: +49 (0)89 2892 8228

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