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Date:	Wed, 1 Oct 2003 08:34:18 +0100 (BST)
From:	John Morrison <john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu>
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Subject:	Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote:
>
> > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer.  I
> > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin).  After that, I
> > started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not start in the
> > /home/$USER directory ($USER means the user name I use to log onto my
> > computer).  The actual directory is /sygdrive/c, which means the c: drive
> > on my computer.  What went wrong in my installation and can anyone help me?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> At a guess, your HOME is set incorrectly in Windows.

Igor, think there's anything /etc/profile could do about this?

J.


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