Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/25/17:07:04
At 04:56 PM 3/25/2004, you wrote:
>Ken Thompson wrote:
>
>>I don't think this is really a bash issue. I think HOMEDRIVE is actually
>>set by XP and bash is just importing it. Cygwin has a default for NOME if
>
>No. On my system, HOMEDRIVE was NOT set (neither for me personally, nor for all users.)
HOMEDRIVE is set by Windows. You don't have to set it. And bash wouldn't
know HOMEDRIVE from a hole in the wall. ;-)
>>it is not set but it is unlikely to be what you desire. Just set the
>>environment variable HOMEDRIVE to 'H:' and it will do exactly what you wish.
>>The correct procedure on Cygwin is to manually set the environment variables
>>to whatever you wish them to be
>
>As I've already written in my original message, if I change it in XP, bash overwrites it. I can't imagine that this is correct behavior?!
I'd agree. But moving profiles like you did is not likely to be without
repercussions. I'm assuming that MS wouldn't recommend this. Nevertheless,
it's a Windows problem that you'll get better information about it on some
other list. At this point, you've gone beyond the scope of this one.
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