On 21 August 2015 at 20:57, Amanda Charbonneau wrote:
| Hey all,
| 
| I'm teaching to all Windows users next week, so I'm doing a dry run on a new
| Windows VM to test everything. I installed the 32bit version and 64bit version
| of GitBash 2.5.0, and neither will let me run Nano. 
| 
| I get the following error:
| 
| > $ nano
| > Redirection is not supported.
| 
| I Googled a while, and there apparently was a similar error using emulators on
| windows in 2012. The fix for that was:
| 
| > $ export TERM=cygwin
| 
| but that doesn't work now.
| 
| Any other ideas???

We told participants in today's workshop to say 'notepad' when 'nano' fails.
A better solution would certainly we welcomed by many.

Dirk

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