Mississippi -> Miiippi

["Dai Itasaka" <ditasaka at silverbacksystems dot com>]

Hello list,

Here is what I did:

- Opened several tcsh windows (as separate MS Window apps)
- Started X by invoking "startxwin.sh" which gave me one big root window
  and one xterm window
- In this xterm window, I did:
    > xhost 10.0.1.2
    > ssh myname@10.0.1.2
    (now I'm logged in)
    > setenv DISPLAY 10.0.1.1:0
    (10.0.1.1 is the Windows PC with cygwin running, 10.0.1.2 is a Linux box)
    > twm &
    (now the desktop is managed by twm)
- Opened a few more xterm windows from twm and already opened xterm
- Went back to one of the tcsh window and did:
    > setenv DISPLAY localhost:0
    > xterm

This opened up one xterm window in the X desktop with "bash-2.05b" prompt.
In this xterm window, I couldn't type the letter 's'. Not only I couldn't
type, but I was unable to yank and copy a string with 's'. For example,
I yanked a string "tcsh" in another xterm window and pasted it in this
troubled xterm window, it displayed "tch". For another example, I yanked
the word "Mississippi" from /usr/share/dict/words and pasted it and got
"Miiippi". I had no such problem in any other xterm windows but this.

What was happening?

>uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 myname 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown
Cygwin