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From: "Erdely, Michael" <mike@erdelynet.com>
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Subject: Re: Spaces in home directory
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 19:33:29 -0400
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You could mount C:\Documents and Settings to /home

mount c:/documents\ and\ settings/ /home

-ME

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Zanella" <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>
To: <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:14 PM
Subject: Spaces in home directory


>
> Hello,
>
> I have a question related to spaces in paths. As has already been pointed
> out it is best to use a user name containing no spaces when using cygwin.
> Howver please not that at least in Win2K all users are created under
> C:\Documents and Settings (for example user User's home directory would
> be C:\Documents and Settings\User). Will the two spaces in the path cause
> trouble and if so is there a way around this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> > These will all be in 1.1.5.  I've probably missed a few.
> >
> > - True UNIX style argument list passing to cygwin subprocesses.  No more
strange
> >   quoting of the command line to preserver white space, etc.
> >
> > - True UNIX passing of environment variables to cygwin subprocesses.  No
more
> >   conversion back and forth between Windows and UNIX formats.
> >
> > - Improved (?) parameter passing, quoting, and parsing for non-cygwin
processes.
>
>
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