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Date: | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:31:22 -0700 |
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Eric Backus wrote: > Gustavo Seabra <gustavo.seabra <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Yes, you can do this. I've done this for years by > putting "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/ericjb/My Documents" > into /etc/passwd. This works well, though every once in awhile you might find > a shell script which doesn't correctly handle spaces in paths. (Such a script > is broken, and should be fixed.) I can't even remember the last time I ran > into that though, most scripts don't use $HOME. > The cpan updater hated this if you pointed it at ~/.cpan. :P I ended uphaving to find the cpan config file and do the ~1 replacement in it to get around it. Jason -- 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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