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From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: HOME when using both cygwin and cygwin64
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CFD202.9040009@cs.umass.edu> (raw)

Dear Cygwin-ers -- I solicit suggestions around the following.
For a long time I have used cygwin (32 bit) almost exclusively,
and in that universe my home directory is /home/moss, which in
Windows land is C:\cygwin\home\moss.  Now I also have cygwin64
installed under C:\cygwin64, with another home directory there,
C:\cygwin64\home\moss.  When I start a 64-bit bash in a 64-bit
xterm, HOME gets set to /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/moss.  Does
this seem right?  It seems counter-intuitive to me -- should
it not be /home/moss, namely C:\cygwin64\home\moss?  If that
would be better (I think so), how can I best achieve it?

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-02-26  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-26  4:18 Eliot Moss [this message]
2016-02-26  7:05 ` Andrey Repin
2016-02-26  8:21 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-02-26 12:33   ` Eliot Moss

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