From: "Erdely, Michael" <mike@erdelynet.com>
To: <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Spaces in home directory
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002001c03249$545a2850$1419a8c0@home.erdelynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0010092038400.14736-100000@garfield.cs.mun.ca>
You could mount C:\Documents and Settings to /home
mount c:/documents\ and\ settings/ /home
-ME
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Zanella" <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>
To: <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:14 PM
Subject: Spaces in home directory
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a question related to spaces in paths. As has already been pointed
> out it is best to use a user name containing no spaces when using cygwin.
> Howver please not that at least in Win2K all users are created under
> C:\Documents and Settings (for example user User's home directory would
> be C:\Documents and Settings\User). Will the two spaces in the path cause
> trouble and if so is there a way around this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> > These will all be in 1.1.5. I've probably missed a few.
> >
> > - True UNIX style argument list passing to cygwin subprocesses. No more
strange
> > quoting of the command line to preserver white space, etc.
> >
> > - True UNIX passing of environment variables to cygwin subprocesses. No
more
> > conversion back and forth between Windows and UNIX formats.
> >
> > - Improved (?) parameter passing, quoting, and parsing for non-cygwin
processes.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-09 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-09 15:44 changes in recent snapshots -- need testing before release Chris Faylor
2000-10-09 16:14 ` Spaces in home directory Neil Zanella
2000-10-09 16:33 ` Erdely, Michael [this message]
[not found] ` <150341240798.20001010072046@calendarcentral.com>
2000-10-10 7:28 ` Re[2]: " Erdely, Michael
2000-10-10 17:03 ` changes in recent snapshots -- need testing before release David Starks-Browning
2000-10-10 17:07 ` DJ Delorie
2000-10-10 17:34 ` David Starks-Browning
2000-12-13 8:47 ` David Starks-Browning
2000-10-10 17:10 ` Chris Faylor
2000-10-10 17:08 ` David Starks-Browning
2000-10-10 17:11 ` Chris Faylor
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