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Dietmar Lettau wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I use cygwin with w98.
> My question: how to install a thing like "/etc/profiles" or ~/.bashrc ?
> I want automatically some aliases to be loaded at startup.
> 
> The bash uses c:\ as root (I assume: there lies the .bash_history), but
> it won't help when I place a '.bashrc' there (written with lower case).
> 
> Please excuse my bad english,
> 
> greetings
> Dietmar
> 
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for using these files (.profile, .bashrc) in a "home"
you must have a HOME variable set with your home-path.

mkdir /home
mkdir /home/dietmar

cp .bashrc /home/dietmar

HOME must e set before calling bash, e.g. in a startup.bat (cygnus.bat)
set HOME c:\home\dietmar


works for me with cygwin b20.1


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