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From: Soren A <soren_andersen AT fastmail DOT fm>
Subject: Re: USER environment variable mystery
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 17:17:03 +0000 (UTC)
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Steve Núñez <nunez AT helios DOT net> wrote around 22 Nov 2002 
news:5 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 9 DOT 0 DOT 20021123115631 DOT 00ad1780 AT localhost:

> Does anyone know how to *really* change the environment variables? 

You have the wrong env variable. Try setting USERNAME *in cygwin.bat* (how 
can you expect to lie to Cygwin about who you are once you've logged in? -- 
there may be some way to do it but at first glance it doesn't sound 
logical).

See if that works for you.
  Soren A

-- 
Yes, it's really Sören, not Soren.




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