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From:	kurtz <kurtz611 AT terra DOT es>
Subject:	Re: Setting $HOME for Windows
Date:	Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:03:21 +0100
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Dave Korn wrote:
>   The issue is that on a Unix system, you set your home dir by editing
> /etc/passwd.  Leave the windoze environment alone.

I've set for a long time both the HOME windows environment, so other 
win32 native GNU applications are aware of it, and the /etc/password 
entry to the same value, properly /cygpathed/, with any problem.


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