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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:14:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: set HOME environment
To: Guansong Zhang <guansong AT hotmail DOT com>
Cc: cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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--- Guansong Zhang <guansong AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
> I quoted as
> 
> set HOME="%USERPROFILE%"
> 
> but it does not help.
> 
> Besides, HOME is an environment in DOS, right? at least in previous cygwin
> version. This works before, only when I add
> 
> --login -i
> 
> as bash arguments. The problem comes. The new system seems specify the
> /home/$USER as the default home.
> 

See the /etc/profile file.  It modifies these variables when --login is used.

Cheers,

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