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RE: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input
- From: "KARR, DAVID" <dk068x at att dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:57:46 +0000
- Subject: RE: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input
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> -----Original Message-----
> Larry Hall (Cygwin)
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:35 AM
> Subject: Re: mintty shell gets frequent "8~" strings inserted into input
>
> On 1/24/2014 2:00 PM, KARR, DAVID wrote:
> > I'm on Cygwin 1.7.26 on Win7.
> >
> > I run mintty with "C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -e /bin/bash --login".
> >
> > Every minute or so, or randomly, my mintty shell prompt gets the string
> > "8~" inserted. If I leave the shell there, it will end up with a string of
> > them. What might be causing this?
>
> Check the archives. I think there was a similar report that finally
> resolved itself as an overly zealous virus checker or something similar.
Any idea what to search for? I've already searched the internet and the cygwin archives several months back with obvious search strings.
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