From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20378 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2017 09:39:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 20365 invoked by uid 89); 9 Sep 2017 09:39:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_SOFTFAIL,URI_HEX autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*M:post, sk:cygwin., UD:1069669.n5.nabble.com, UD:cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com X-HELO: n5.nabble.com Received: from n5.nabble.com (HELO n5.nabble.com) (162.253.133.81) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:39:46 +0000 Received: from n5.nabble.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by n5.nabble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE5D19E458 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2017 02:39:45 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:39:00 -0000 From: Kptain To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1504949985304-0.post@n5.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <190592.83283.bm@smtp101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> References: <190592.83283.bm@smtp101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 I suggest to reuse Windows environment variable: $USERPROFILE Just redefine new home directory: setenv HOME $USERPROFILE/home (for example if you expect a folder outside cygwin folder itself) -- Sent from: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-list-f3.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple