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 va
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:02:05PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
> > At home I don't even use that silly C:\Documents and Settings\$USER crap
> > and have successfully (though not easily) hacked the registry into using
> > C:\Home\ and storing all configuration type data in
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:00:24PM -, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chris Herborth
> > Sent: 23 December 2004 18:27
>
> > George wrote:
> > > I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually
> > > setting $HOME as a Wind
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> At home I don't even use that silly C:\Documents and Settings\$USER crap
> and have successfully (though not easily) hacked the registry into using
> C:\Home\ and storing all configuration type data into
> C:\Home\\Configuration - but that's me...
There's no need to hack t
George wrote:
I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually
setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable.
I can't seem to find the message, so if someone can elaborate on why
this is A Bad Thing, I'd appreciate it. This is for those of us
pursuing the Holy Grail of int
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chris Herborth
> Sent: 23 December 2004 18:27
> George wrote:
> > I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually
> > setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable.
>
> I set mine to something sensible (usuall
George wrote:
I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually
setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable.
I set mine to something sensible (usually d:\home or d:\home\userid)
before installing Cygwin; I've never had any trouble. Perhaps the issue
is with the spaces in
I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually
setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable.
I can't seem to find the message, so if someone can elaborate on why
this is A Bad Thing, I'd appreciate it. This is for those of us
pursuing the Holy Grail of integrating Cygwi
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