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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:05:36 -0400
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From: Dino Morelli <dino DOT morelli AT snet DOT net>
Subject: Re: ncftp 3.1.4 bookmark save problem
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At 02:43 PM 9/28/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>What I meant was that the directory is named "Documents and Settings", not
>"Document and Settings", as you typed in your original post.  But I'm sure
>it was just a typo.

Yeah, this is what it's set to:

~$echo $HOME
/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/dmorelli
~$

(paste from bash)


> > >What is your $CYGWIN setting?  Are you running ncftp from a bash shell, or
> > >from a shortcut?  If the latter, is your $CYGWIN set in .bashrc or
> > >similar, or is it set in the Windows environment?
> >
> > CYGWIN is not set at all
> > I'm running from bash
> >
> > >ncftp seems to extract the value of $HOME from /etc/passwd, rather than
> > >from the current value of $HOME...  What is your home directory set to in
> > >/etc/passwd?
>
>This is probably a bug in [the Cygwin port of] ncftp (either that or an
>outdated man page).
>
> > Hm. in /etc/passwd my home is /home/[username]
> > All users' homes are like that under /home  I wonder if this has always
> > been in cygwin. I never looked in /etc/passwd before.
>
>This is the default.  You can edit /etc/passwd and change it for your
>user (make a backup copy first, just in case).
>
>If the directory specified in /etc/passwd is missing, this could be the
>reason for the error message you're getting.
>
>FYI, $NCFTPDIR represents the name of the directory that will actually
>contain the files, not the parent of .ncftp, i.e. the default setting
>would be NCFTPDIR="$HOME/.ncftp".  It works for me on Win2k SP2, same
>version of ncftp as you have.
>         Igor

Ok, tried modifying /etc/passwd and it works now. I suppose this should be 
documented. In the past, for all cygwin apps that I used, it was sufficient 
to have $HOME set and be done.

Thank you very much for solving my problem.

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