> (i) - define HOME before starting cygwin (in cygwin.bat or autoexec.bat)
OK, tried this too as suggested: then started up Cygwin 16-1 but to no useful effect. Still found that I started in / rather than ~ = /home/fergus, and got echo $HOME / rather than echo $HOME /home/fergus as in 15-2. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/