> From: Peter Davis > > What should it be? I explicitly set HOME to be C:\home in Windows, > for the benefit of emacs, etc. I've done this for years, so it seems > to be unrelated to the current problem. In fact, I just checked, and > the results of these commands are the same on my old Win2000 machine, > where .bashrc worked.
Hi, You don't actually need to explicitly set HOME anymore, cygwin's come on over the years ;) Somebody (pardon - I've deleted the mail) correctly said, you need to add a . ~/.bashrc (or use source rather than .) to your ~/.bash_profile Cygwin doesn't run ~/.bashrc by default - as the bash manual recommends. It's on the 'todo' list to create a skeleton ~/.bash_profile, but I've not got round to making it work correctly, sorry. Oh, and alias in ~/.bash_profile doesn't (I believe) work, don't know why. You can still set your HOME, there's nothing (that I know of!) wrong with doing so. J. -- 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/
