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 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:08:01 +0100 From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List CC: ken.thompson@gtri.gatech.edu Subject: Re: bash incorrectly determines HOME and HOMEDRIVE References: <40635584.3050208@RWTH-Aachen.DE> <6.0.1.1.0.20040325165912.02866ad0@pop.rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040325165912.02866ad0@pop.rcn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rabe@Mail.WG X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Message-ID: <1B6mM4-0004Wt-KI@ADSL-Bergs.RZ.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Larry Hall wrote: [...] > HOMEDRIVE is set by Windows. ACK. I was able to verify that. > I'd agree. But moving profiles like you did is not likely to be without > repercussions. I'm assuming that MS wouldn't recommend this. Nevertheless, Actually, it's not a problem at all. I used Windoze built-in functionality to copy the profile, then changed just a single registry entry. I can be sure that what I did was fine since I haven't yet a single Windoze program fail or put stuff into the wrong directory. > it's a Windows problem that you'll get better information about it on some > other list. At this point, you've gone beyond the scope of this one. I agree. Thanks for pointing me to the fact that this problem is Windows-related. -- 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/