X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 12:18:03 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1384340755.20120807121803@mtu-net.ru> To: Soumya Roy , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden In-Reply-To: References: <198624923.20120803012834@mtu-net.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Greetings, Soumya Roy! Please, don't top-post. > Howver as it turns out, previously when I was typing "$ ls ~" I was > getting the contents of "Documents and Settings/Valnt"....but now > however "$ ls ~" gives me the actual proper content of > "/cygwin/home/Valnt"....which is perfect...however the basic problem > still remains i.e the initial directory(after starting cygwin) that I > am in is "Documents and Settings/Valnt"... > so this is what I want to "fix"... > Any suggestion is much appreciated. You can define HOME in windows evironment. But that would also affect other programs, that totally don't expect such action. I mean, if you say $HOME, programs expect it to point you your user's profile. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 07.08.2012, <12:15> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple