On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, david sarraf wrote: > Hi, I have installed Cygwin a few times over the past couple of days. For > some reason, The /home and /dev directory, and the environment variables(eg. > PATH)do not get set up properlly. > > When I use startxwin.bat at least the PATH variable is set up. Also for some > reason the .bash_history file is in my c:\ directory, even though I > installed cygwin in c:\cygwin. > > For now I have manually created the home directory and set the path. > I would appreciate any pointers on how to have the installation go > smoothly/where it is possibly going wrong. > > Dave
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