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Re: Quoting characters (was: Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:47:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: Quoting characters (was: Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot)
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:46:19AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>It's the combination of quoting characters + newlines + no whitespace
>separation that made it seem especially unreadable to me. I would
>have written:
>
> This is on win 95 again...
>
> I commonly source a file containing among other things:
>
> /usr/sbin/sshd
>
> With this build, when logging in (using
>
> ssh <machine-name>
>
> ), a new console pops up. It didn't before. When using
>
> ssh <machine-name> bash -li
>
> two consoles pop up, and typing
>
> tty
>
> on the resultant prompt reports "not a tty".
>
> If I can help by providing more info, let me know.
>
>Or just:
>
> This is on win 95 again...
>
> I commonly source a file containing among other things:
> "/usr/sbin/sshd". With this build, when logging in (using "ssh
> <machine-name>"), a new console pops up. It didn't before. When using
> "ssh <machine-name> bash -li" two consoles pop up, and typing "tty" on
> the resultant prompt reports "not a tty".
>
> If I can help by providing more info, let me know.
>
>The latter would still be readable to me with ``'', but I prefer ".
What he said.
I'm glad it wasn't just me.
cgf