From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28818 invoked by alias); 23 Dec 2004 17:38:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28631 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2004 17:37:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp807.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) (66.163.168.186) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 23 Dec 2004 17:37:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sbcglobal.net) (d1945@sbcglobal.net@69.104.191.121 with login) by smtp807.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Dec 2004 17:37:52 -0000 Received: by sbcglobal.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:37:44 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 17:38:00 -0000 From: George To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Setting $HOME for Windows Message-ID: <20041223173744.GA752@home> Reply-To: George Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00808.txt.bz2 I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable. I can't seem to find the message, so if someone can elaborate on why this is A Bad Thing, I'd appreciate it. This is for those of us pursuing the Holy Grail of integrating Cygwin with Windows (or, depending on one's view, Windows with Cygwin), and doing our best to ignore the less-than-holy %USERPROFILE% construct. -- George -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/