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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:35:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Michael Hoffman <grouse AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
To: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit AT mit DOT edu>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: tcsh broken? WAS Re: Running tcsh in rxvt
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Jerrad Pierce wrote:

> Now I have another problem; tcsh seems to be broken
> I set /etc/csh.login to:
>   echo "Global csh initialization"
>   if (! $?HOME ) setenv HOME "/home/$USER"
> 
> The straight NT port of tcsh picks it up however the cygwin tcsh does not;
> I get no echo and no $HOME. This would appaear to be a known issue:
>      http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00516.html

Yes, and Corinna noted that again today. If it were me, I would just
set the environment variable in Windows. In Windows 2000 you can do
this:

Start > Settings > Control Panel > System
Advanced > Environment Variables...
[User variables for (your userid)] New...

Set HOME to the cygwin path for your home directory.
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Michael Hoffman <grouse AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
The University of Texas at Austin




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