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Re: starting xterm from tcsh, gives error message: missing }.

From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:11:44 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Re: starting xterm from tcsh, gives error message: missing }.
References: <Pine.SGI.4.60.0504151920180.95612@i5.msi.umn.edu><Pine.SGI.4.60.0504181834500.143288@i5.msi.umn.edu>
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Bengt Svensson wrote:

> Thanks Michael for the answer, you were correct.
> It was a problem with spaces in the PATH. It is the script 
> /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.csh that does not handle the space. I 
> verified this by removing the part of the PAT that had the space in it. 
> The script is attached here in its original form. Hopefully someone who is 
> better than me at csh scripting can find a solution for future versions 
> of cygwin.

I have space in the path too and had no problems with the xorg-x11-base.csh 
script. maybe it is a different script which is not installed on my but on
your host.

bye
	ago
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References:
- starting xterm from tcsh, gives error message: missing }.
  - From: Bengt Svensson
- Re: starting xterm from tcsh, gives error message: missing }.
  - From: Bengt Svensson

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