From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: Guansong Zhang <guansong@hotmail.com>
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: set HOME environment
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:14:00 -0000
Message-id: <20000913151428.23494.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-09/msg00430.html

--- Guansong Zhang <guansong@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I quoted as
> 
> set HOME="%USERPROFILE%"
> 
> but it does not help.
> 
> Besides, HOME is an environment in DOS, right? at least in previous cygwin
> version. This works before, only when I add
> 
> --login -i
> 
> as bash arguments. The problem comes. The new system seems specify the
> /home/$USER as the default home.
> 

See the /etc/profile file.  It modifies these variables when --login is used.

Cheers,

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