X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Will Parsons Subject: Re: reseting HOME directory Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:27:18 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <20217298.post@talk.nabble.com> <20229369.post@talk.nabble.com> <490881F3.8010406@cygwin.com> Reply-To: ellenophilos@yahoo.com User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > mcbenus wrote: >> Thanks! Is that ok to change the Windows Home? what implications it may have >> on other software? > > For Cygwin, you shouldn't set HOME in the Windows environment unless you > need Cygwin to see the same HOME as some other software (MKS is one > example I know of that likes to set HOME in the Windows environment). > As for the implications, it depends on the software you have installed > that relies on this environment variable (like MKS). Windows doesn't > use HOME. So unless you really need it, you're better off removing > it from you Windows environment. I don't know that there's any particular reason to discourage setting HOME in the Windows environment - I've done it for years (since I started using Cygwin B19, I think). For me, it serves to indicate where "my stuff" is located, whether Cygwin related or not (c:\wbp). Besides Cygwin, it is used in my systems by (non-Cygwin) Emacs and MSYS. -- Will -- 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/