Subject: Re: Setting $HOME for Windows
From: Chris Herborth <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:26:53 -0500

George wrote:
> I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually
> setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable.  

I set mine to something sensible (usually d:\home or d:\home\userid) 
before installing Cygwin; I've never had any trouble.  Perhaps the issue 
is with the spaces in the default $USERPROFILE?

-- 
Chris Herborth ([email-masked])
Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.

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