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From: Earnie Boyd <earnie@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+sc5mnqomLdG=+jK-7uzen22PxB4rXrnXuJsf_4VvPEmEcW_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF8vj8EALfGycbCRighCHGeN1u2x5Gds1p2st6WTQDNKYK=+Dg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Soumya Roy wrote:
> Well my life went fine until later on I fired up cygwin and realized
> that my intial directory has now been changed from
> "c:/cygwin/home/username" to "c:/Documents and Settings/username"...

Look for a HOME environment variable set in the Windows environment.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-02 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-02 17:30 Soumya Roy
2012-08-02 17:33 ` Earnie Boyd [this message]
2012-08-02 18:08 ` Soumya Roy
2012-08-02 21:52   ` Andrey Repin
2012-08-02 22:10     ` Andrew DeFaria
2012-08-03 16:22     ` Soumya Roy
2012-08-07  8:35       ` Andrey Repin

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