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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:41:40 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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To: ScKaSx <kakuda AT engr DOT ucsb DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Changing Home Directory
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Greetings, ScKaSx!

> I just installed Cygwin and found that my home directory is defined by
> Windows HOME environment variable.

But WHY you need it?
Seems counter-intuitive to have two homes? It's not like you could live in
both at the same time?

> My question is how I can change my cygwin home directory without changing
> the Windows HOME variable, in other words to use /etc/mkpasswd?


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 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 25.07.2011, <07:40>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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