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From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: competition for HOME environment variable
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:34:18 -0400
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> From: Jean-Philippe Grivet [mailto:grivet AT cnrs-orleans DOT fr]
> Subject: competition for HOME environment variable
> ...
> I have tested cygwin software in a very limited fashion (vim and gcc,
> mostly) and find that they perform satisfactorily.

 GOOD!
> 
> My guess is that cygwin, Astex, and Scilab (all ports of 
> Linux programs)
> require HOME environment variable.
> This was  previously defined in order to use a WIN port of Emacs along
> with Astex.
> 
> This seems to be confirmed by the cygcheck file which is 
> appended. This
> file also contains unwanted references to Borland C directory 
> and files.
> 
> So my question is: how can I resolve this conflict betwen two programs
> that use the same environment variable ?
 What's there to resolve?  Your system seems to be running properly.
Are you having some difficulty not mentioned in your post?

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