Rather off topic, and rather insinuating, but googling has run off at tangents so I do beg your pardon. However someone may have some insight . . .

I've downloaded and installed Strawberry Perl 5.8.8.4 on two Vista boxes both to C:\strawberry, both have tcsh courtesy of cygwin in C:\bin, and both have AS 5.10 in C:\Perl which I manage by editing %Path% as and when I please.

It seems that after the Strawberry install the up key no longer shows the last command in tcsh, instead the cursor goes up a line. In fact all the keybindings are being ignored, and all I'm getting is "^[[A: Command not found."

source /etc/profile.d/bindkey.tcsh

has no effect, and neither does uninstalling Strawberry.

I was able to use Windows restore to get tcsh to behave so it's not as dire as all that, but was wondering if any of you have any ideas/pointers that I could try?

cygwin version follows:

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.0 mimi-PC 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin

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