Re: Cygwin-installed /etc/profile supplied appears to be DOS-type text file

[Rex Godby <rwg3 at york dot ac dot uk>]

Thanks.  Indeed, I conclude that I must have edited /etc/profile long, 
long ago (before I understood that this is not advisable), and saved it 
in DOS-style format.  I see in various discussions that bash has 
recently been made intolerant of DOS-style line endings, explaining my 
observation.  (I'll delete my hand-altered /etc/profile and let it be 
overwritten by the official Cygwin version.)  Rex

On 26/11/2006 22:21, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 26 November 2006 14:33, Rex Godby wrote:
>
> > After updating Cygwin today (26 November 2006), the installed version of
> > /etc/profile appeared to become a DOS-type text file rather than a Unix-type
> > text file.  That caused severe problems (e.g. "unknown command") when
> > starting up the Cygwin login shell.  Correcting the file type back to Unix
> > seems to have solved the problem.
>
>   There aint no CRs in the one I just downloaded:
..
>   Is it possible you've made local modifications to your /etc/profile, so it
> no longer gets upgraded by setup.exe?
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK


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