From: ralf AT wamba DOT central DOT de (Ralf Meyer)
Subject: Re: Newbie questions....
25 Mar 1998 09:30:38 -0800
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> From:          "Nagle, Adrian" <anagle AT ball DOT com>

> However, some questions.  I've tried to find the information on the
> web, but haven't been successful.  How does bash work in CYGWIN-32? 
> I can't figure out how to set the $HOME variable.  I have my
> .bash_profile and bashrc in my home directory to configure my
> environment, but executing the cygnus.bat file (to start bash) will
> not source those files and it puts me in the desktop directory.  How
> do I configure bash so that it sources my config files?

Just add something like this to cygnus.bat:
---
set USER=%USERNAME%
set HOME=/home/%USER%
---
I mounted a subdir of my liking to /home:
i.e. 
	mount d:/users /home
-- 
bye
     ranf
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