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On Feb 13 14:47, Warren Young wrote:
> > On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:30 PM, Denis Excoffier <cygwin AT Denis-Excoffier DOT or=
g> wrote:
> >=20
> > On 2015-02-13 22:04, Warren Young wrote:
> >>=20
> >> I don=E2=80=99t think you should use %H when that directory might cont=
ain spaces.
> >=20
> > You misunderstand. I don't need this stupid 'Document and Settings' thi=
ng. I need %H to represent my home dir, that means
> > /cygdrive/d/Home/myuser1 on this XP P3 (a corporate one) and /cygdrive/=
c/Users/myuser2 on this W7 (another corporate).
>=20
> In that case, I think you just want
>=20
> 	db_home: /%H
>=20
> %H already expands to a directory that contains your Windows user
> name.  You don=E2=80=99t need to add %U to it.
>=20
> > But currently, on XP SP3, the %H is replaced by '/cygdrive/d/Document a=
nd Settings/myuser1' which i'm pretty
> > close to consider as a bug. Should be '/cygdrive/d/Home/myuser1' i supp=
ose.
>=20
> I=E2=80=99d be stunned if cygwin1.dll is hard-coding that string.  It mus=
t be
> getting it from somewhere.  I would do a registry scan to see if there
> is still some setting that still refers to c:\Documents and Settings.

I hope https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00425.html explains it
thoroughly enough.  Does %H need a better description in the docs?


Corinna

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