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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:28:53 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin home dir=/cygwin/c (not /home/<userid>)
Message-ID: <20030102222853.GA313905@WORLDNET>
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:15:09PM +0100, a12 wrote:

> Whether I login locally as user 'sysaccount' or domain user
> 'magr40', the problem persists:
> HOME=/cygdrive/c
> HOMEDRIVE=C:
> HOMEPATH=\

Isn't HOME already defined in the Windows environment, before 
starting Cygwin?
Start a DOS shell and type echo %HOME%

Pierre

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