From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: Guansong Zhang Cc: cygwin users Subject: Re: set HOME environment Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:13:00 -0000 Message-id: <20000913191252.18616.qmail@web116.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-09/msg00440.html *You* modify *your* /etc/profile to put quotes in the HOME variable. HOME=\"/home/$USER\" Cheers, Earnie. --- Guansong Zhang wrote: > I put an echo $HOME before it is used in /etc/profile > and found the result is > > /cygdrive/e/Documents and Settings/zgs > > it did not put any back slash before a space. > > It should be a problem in algorithm to convert dir format in bash. I think > you can reproduce the problem by set your HOME as a dir with a space in its > name. > > Regards, > > Guansong > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Earnie Boyd" > To: "Guansong Zhang" > Cc: "cygwin users" > Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:14 AM > Subject: Re: set HOME environment > > > > --- Guansong Zhang wrote: > > > I quoted as > > > > > > set HOME="%USERPROFILE%" > > > > > > but it does not help. > > > > > > Besides, HOME is an environment in DOS, right? at least in previous > cygwin > > > version. This works before, only when I add > > > > > > --login -i > > > > > > as bash arguments. The problem comes. The new system seems specify the > > > /home/$USER as the default home. > > > > > > > See the /etc/profile file. It modifies these variables when --login is > used. > > > > Cheers, > > > > ===== > > --- < http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com > --- > > Earnie Boyd: < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com > > > __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ > > Cygwin Newbies: < http://gw32.freeyellow.com/ > > > __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ > > Mingw32 List: < http://www.egroups.com/group/mingw32/ > > > Mingw Home: < http://www.mingw.org/ > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com