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From:	"Markus Hoenicka" <Markus DOT Hoenicka AT uth DOT tmc DOT edu>
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Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:27:17 +0000 (CT0)
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Subject:	OK, now what?
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Scott M Blackledge writes:
 > I tried downloading the current version of cygwin today.  Yes, I've read
 > the FAQ and the readme's.  Perhaps its just been a long day, but I've
 > executed setup.exe and after clicking on the cygwyn desktop icon, the DOS
 > window pops up with
 > 
 >      I have no name!IBM-R4I1LNZXQ9E ~
 > 

I guess you did not set the environment variable USER. Look at
/etc/profile. The prompt that you see is set in the variable PS1. The
default setting is something like $USER@$HOSTNAME, so if these
variables don't exist or contain strange things, your prompt will look
odd.

Markus
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