Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: From: "Ken Thompson" To: "Cygwin List" , "Ralf G. R. Bergs" Subject: RE: bash incorrectly determines HOME and HOMEDRIVE Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:28:56 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040325171619.02865d70@pop.rcn.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes > -----Original Message----- > Larry Hall > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:21 PM > Subject: RE: bash incorrectly determines HOME and HOMEDRIVE > > > At 05:14 PM 3/25/2004, you wrote: > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> Larry Hall > >> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:04 PM > >> > >>> Subject: Re: bash incorrectly determines HOME and HOMEDRIVE > >> > >> > >> Larry Hall WroteK > >> > >> HOMEDRIVE is set by Windows. You don't have to set it. And > bash wouldn't > >> know HOMEDRIVE from a hole in the wall. ;-) > >> > >That is what I thought but I can definitely reproduce this > behaviour on XP. > >I set HOMEDRIVE in H: in windows and then run bash and its reset to C:. > >Definitely strange. Not that I really care since I don't use it for > >anything. BTW, It is possible to change it in the ".bashrc" file > > > Don't set it at all and set what it looks like in cmd.exe. > You'll see it's > set and will be C: too. > Bingo. Whew that makes a lot more sense. Been a long day. > You can set any environment variable to anything you want in .bashrc. > Have at it! ;-) > > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/