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Subject: Persisting values of environment variables
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:27:47 -0800
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I'm trying to change the value of $HOME. If I do something like "export
HOME="c:/whatever" $HOME is changed for that session. But after Cygwin is
closed and restarted $HOME is set back to the default /home/user. How can I
persist the change to $HOME?

-Nate


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