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, 24 Dec 2004 12:16:08 -0800 From: George To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setting $HOME for Windows Message-ID: <20041224201608.GA852@home> Reply-To: George Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:00:24PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chris Herborth > > Sent: 23 December 2004 18:27 > > > 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? > > > The issue is that on a Unix system, you set your home dir by editing > /etc/passwd. Leave the windoze environment alone. > Well, I'd like to leave the windoze environment alone, but that's where my stuff is, and c:/cygwin/home/myname/mystuff/morestuff is too much typing. My question related not to the method by which $HOME is set for use by Cygwin, but to any possible problems having a $HOME variable set in the Windows environment, either pre-install or post-install. Judging from the other replies, I'll assume that everything is hunky dorey with idea. -- George -- 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/