From: virgilio AT tek1 DOT tekniq DOT com (Vince Virgilio) Subject: Re: bash and ~ 25 Feb 1998 00:58:32 -0800 Message-ID: <34F32002.DED7047F.cygnus.gnu-win32@tekniq.com> References: <199802231546 DOT KAA20557 AT scotch DOT mae DOT cornell DOT edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Daniel Karipides Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I just reread your message. You obviously understand that forward slashes will work. Sorry for the oversight. Vince Virgilio Daniel Karipides wrote: > I have defined the enivornment variable $HOME to: > > D:\Users\smith > > I need it defined this way so that emacs (among other programs) works > correctly when not started from bash. However, in bash I noticed the > following: > ... - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".