Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001020191326.0206e130@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:17:55 -0400 To: "Robert Collins" , "Earnie Boyd" , "Town, Brad" , "'Ignasi Palou-Rivera'" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has s paces In-Reply-To: <02ee01c03aeb$6d02f5d0$f7c723cb@lifelesswks> References: <20001020135512 DOT 24681 DOT qmail AT web116 DOT yahoomail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" If you can figure a way to make sure that spaces in HOME are always treated as escaped no matter how its used, that's a possibility. After doing some shell programming, its not clear to me how one could guarantee that spaces in any environment variable is always escaped but just because the notion eludes me doesn't mean it couldn't be done!;-) Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX At 07:13 PM 10/20/2000, Robert Collins wrote: >What about having cygwin "\ " escape the spaces? > >Worth a thought? > >Rob > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Earnie Boyd" >To: "Town, Brad" ; "'Ignasi Palou-Rivera'" >; >Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 12:55 AM >Subject: RE: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has s >paces > > > > Brad's comment is certainly valid but your solution, Ignasi, is already > > implemented in the current setup.exe. IMO the better solution is to use a > > mount point like so (using Brad's example): > > mkdir -p /home/palau ;# if it doesn't already exist > > mount -b "C:/Documents and Settings/palau/My Documents" /home/palau > > > > I suppose that we should add a W2K entry in the TODO list for this issue. > > > > Cheers, > > Earnie. > > --- "Town, Brad" wrote: > > > The best solution would be to not have spaces in HOME at all, since it > > > breaks many a good program. For example, if you wanted your home >directory > > > to be "C:\Documents and Settings\palau\My Documents", you could use > > > "C:\Docume~1\palau\MyDocu~1" or a mount point. > > > > > > Brad Town > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Ignasi Palou-Rivera [mailto:palou AT yahoo DOT com] > > > > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:33 AM > > > > To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > > > Subject: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has > > > > spaces > > > > > > > > > > > > The default /etc/profile for the 1.1.4 version of CygWin chokes when > > > > HOME is defined including blanks. The solution is to quote the > > > > reference to $HOME in line 14: > > > > > > > > IPALOU$ diff profile profile.orig > > > > 14c14 > > > > < if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then > > > > --- > > > > > if [ ! -d $HOME ]; then > > > > > > > > I'm running under Win2000, but I'm sure that's irrelevant. > > > > > > > > Ignasi. > > > > > > -- > > > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > > > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. > > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > > > -- > > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > > > > > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com