Problems with Cygwin .screenrc file resolved!

September 2nd, 2009

I’ve been fighting with my .screenrc file in Cygwin for quite some time… I’d configure settings and either they wouldn’t take (such as turning off startup_message) or I’d get strange errors like Unrecognized command ”.

It turns out that my .screenrc file had dos line endings… running dos2unix fixed it!

$ dos2unix .screenrc

I post this hoping that somebody else will stumble across this when they’re struggling with similar problems. :-)

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4 Responses to “Problems with Cygwin .screenrc file resolved!”

  1. Anonymous on December 20, 2009 5:14 am

    what is cygwin?

  2. rexkerr on December 22, 2009 4:06 pm

    Cygwin is a set of libraries and applications that provide a Unix like environment in Windows, including a bash shell and X server.

  3. Traffic Web Domain on December 27, 2009 11:22 pm

    is it like lampp for ubuntu? and xampp for windows? like an emulator?

  4. rexkerr on December 29, 2009 4:33 pm

    Not really an emulator, a compatibility layer.

    There is apache, PHP, etc, for cygwin, but I wouldn’t say that it “is like” LAMPP/XAMPP.

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