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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: kurtz Subject: Re: Setting $HOME for Windows Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:03:21 +0100 Lines: 7 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 234.red-80-24-49.pooles.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Dave Korn wrote: > The issue is that on a Unix system, you set your home dir by editing > /etc/passwd. Leave the windoze environment alone. I've set for a long time both the HOME windows environment, so other win32 native GNU applications are aware of it, and the /etc/password entry to the same value, properly /cygpathed/, with any problem. -- 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/