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Subject: Re: Spurious characters in USERPROFILE variable when running ssh
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On Feb  8 18:33, Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro wrote:
> I have set up an sshd server on my Windows XP box.  If I run the
> bash shell locally on the XP box, the USERPROFILE environment
> variable is shown as C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator but if
> I run ssh to the XP box, USERPROFILE displays as \??\C:\Documents
> and Settings\Administrator.

Thanks for the report.  I fixed that in CVS.  Please try the next
(not yet created) developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/


Corinna

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