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From: "Ronald Landheer" <ronald DOT landheer AT libertysurf DOT fr>
To: "Jean-Philippe Grivet" <grivet AT cnrs-orleans DOT fr>
Cc: "CygWin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: competition for HOME environment variable
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:25:23 +0200
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If you want your home directory to point somewhere else, I suggest you look
in the /etc/profile script. It's a little shell script run when CygWin is
started, which sets the HOME and USER environment variables.
I edited my own a bit too, to make sure there's no spaces in the name of my
home dir (did a rather sloppy job, actually: just put USER on my surname)

Have fun!

Ronald

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Jean-Philippe
> Grivet
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:04 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: competition for HOME environment variable
>
>
> I just installed cygwin 1.3.2 under NT4.0 using setup.exe. Everything
> went OK, and the install log seems OK too.
>
> I click on the Cygwin icon and type "ls".
> Surprise, three files which have nothing to do  with Cygwin are listed:
>
> Scilab.hist, site-lisp, and SITE-LIS.
> The first is used by Scilab, a Matlab clone written at INRIA, Paris.
> The two others are part of Astex, a french TEX distribution.
>
> I then type "pwd" and read: cygwin/c/ast/astex/emacs. I also discover
> that no "home" directory has been created by setup.exe.
>
> Exiting cygwin, I find that a cygwin/c/ast/astex/emacs has indeed just
> been created in my Astex directory. If I rename it and reenter cygwin,
> this same directory is created anew.
>
> I have tested cygwin software in a very limited fashion (vim and gcc,
> mostly) and find that they perform satisfactorily.
>
> 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 ?
>
>


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