From: lka AT physic DOT ut DOT ee (Andres Heinloo)
Subject: Re: What about HOME and USER when starting Cygwin B20.1
6 Dec 1998 20:47:42 -0800
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On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Christian Jönsson wrote:

> export USER=chj    # That's my Username in then Win98 registry, others exit on my machine.
> export HOME=/WINDOWS/Profiles/$USER
> cd 
> 
> That would be handy to have automatically. I guess that the problem of
> getting the Username out of the registry isn't that easy, is it? 

export HOME=`logname`


Andres.

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