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* Chris W (2004-06-16 22:13 +0100) > Larry Hall wrote: >>Look at 'etc/defaults/etc/profile'. It explains how Cygwin looks for >>and determines what to set HOME to. You should be able to track what's >>going on from there. >> > From what I read there it seems it is setting home based on the values > of HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH but before it does that it first checks the > /etc/passwd file for a path entry for the user and by default there > isn't one, By default there is one (generated by 'mkpasswd'). > and now I can't find where HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH get set [...] These are Windows defaults. > Now if I could just figure out why, when I hit the [Delete] key in > bash, I get a '~' character instead of deleting the character the > cursor is at, I would be set. At least as far as cygwin goes > anyway. Just read the beginning of /etc/profile again. There you get answer and also to your "bashrc" question. Thorsten -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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