From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22816 invoked by alias); 29 Dec 2004 10:22:02 -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 22659 invoked from network); 29 Dec 2004 10:21:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Dec 2004 10:21:54 -0000 Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cjaxh-0004qa-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:21:49 +0100 Received: from 234.red-80-24-49.pooles.rima-tde.net ([80.24.49.234]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:21:48 +0100 Received: from kurtz611 by 234.red-80-24-49.pooles.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:21:48 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: kurtz Subject: Re: Setting $HOME for Windows Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:22:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 234.red-80-24-49.pooles.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00953.txt.bz2 Dave Korn wrote: > The issue is that on a Unix system, you set your home dir by editing > /etc/passwd. Leave the windoze environment alone. I've set for a long time both the HOME windows environment, so other win32 native GNU applications are aware of it, and the /etc/password entry to the same value, properly /cygpathed/, with any problem. -- 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/