From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3064 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2003 07:45:50 -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 14986 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2003 07:19:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta07-svc.ntlworld.com) (62.253.162.47) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Jun 2003 07:19:57 -0000 Received: from loki ([213.104.71.53]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP id <20030623071956.QUHA18592.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@loki> for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:19:56 +0100 From: "John Morrison" To: Subject: RE: win32 dia and HOME=/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% fix Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:35:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg01089.txt.bz2 > From: Soren A. > > this isn't a BUG in Cygwin, this is a FEATURE. I personally *want* > Cygwin to honor my setting of $HOME (%HOME%) because I keep my user dir > files outside the Cygwin fs hierarchy (makes my life easier if I decide a > total wipe-and-reinstall of my Cygwin installation is necessary). Also, I > may want some other, non-Cygwin software to be able to use a HOME > dir that Cygwin knows about too. Agreed, although I still keep my home directory as /home/john and mount it outside of my Cygwin installation. Keeps everyone happy :) J. -- 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/