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Re: Strange problem with MC (Attn: MC maintainer)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: landocalrissian <landocalrissian at att dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:37:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Strange problem with MC (Attn: MC maintainer)
- References: <05bc3df13cdb341deb6221210b9760aa@NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, landocalrissian wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Here's a funny thing that's been happening ever since I installed Cygwin
> here, and subscribed to this list:
> cat: /tmp/mc-Gregg: No such file or directory
> cat: C: No such file or directory
> cat: Levine/mc.pwd.1992: No such file or directory
This is a quoting bug in line 5 of the /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh
script, which says:
MC_PWD="`cat $MC_PWD_FILE`"
This should be
MC_PWD="`cat "$MC_PWD_FILE"`"
MC maintainer, please note. In the meantime, you can fix it in your local
copy.
Igor
> As all of you can see, the program is attempting to parse the name that tmp
> lives in, inside my Documents and Setting folder, and then inside the local
> settings folder. And since the folder with my name on it is considered a
> "system folder", with those requirements and privleges, I can't rename it.
> What's interesting, is that it works normally, except for activities
> regarding access to the tmp directory. Are there any work arounds? If I'm
> bringing this to the wrong list, then I'll be happy to resend it to the
> proper one.
> Gregg C Levine landocalrissian atsign att dot net
> "This signature asks, "Where am I?"."
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