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: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:11:28 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Cygwin Newsgroup Subject: Re: Directory c:\%USERPROFILE% created Message-ID: <20050609081128.GC19050@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin Newsgroup References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jun 9 08:37, Systemtechnik wrote: > Hello, > > i was wandering about strange folders created in the root directory of > my Cygwin-Enhanced PCs and found out > that everytime i start installer programs from within a cygwin shell, a > folder called %USERPROFILE% is created > in the base directory of the pc's harddisk. > > I found out that if i start a command-shell from windows there is an > environment variable called "%USERPROFILE%" which > points to the current logged in users directory. In cygwin-shells this > variable is missing. Sure it's not something you're doing? The variable is certainly available when running the shell with cygwin.bat. And even when starting, say, tcsh directly from explorer, the variable is there, right in the environment. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/