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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:28:58 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home 
  /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%
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Igor, David,

At 21:15 2003-01-25, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>David,
>
>Wow, you've really done your homework :-D

I was thinking the same thing. Would that everyone was so diligent, eh?


>Apparently, Dia has reset your HOME environment variable.  The default
>/etc/profile sets HOME only if it's not set before, and since Cygwin
>processes inherit the Windows environment, well...  In any case,
>uninstallers rarely change back the environment variables that they munge.
>Thus, you could a) go to Start->Settings->Control Panels->System and
>delete your HOME environment variable (no doubt breaking Dia if it's still
>installed), or b) edit your /etc/profile and comment out the line
>containing 'if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then' and the corresponding 'fi'.  If
>you're feeling unsure about changing /etc/profile, you could instead
>change that conditional to 'if [ -z "$HOME" -o "$HOME" =
>"/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%"]; then', just to ignore the change Dia made.

The only reason the %USERPROFILE% portion is there in $HOME is because 
in the Windows environment variable settings, the value of HOME 
includes %USERPROFILE% but USERPROFILE is not itself set, so Windows 
doesn't expand the nested variable reference, it just leaves there in 
its literal form.

So you can set the HOME definitely / absolutely or supply a value for 
USERPROFILE so the expansion of HOME passed to newly created processes 
will include it. Somehow, though, I doubt you'd want your HOME 
directory to be in "/usr/bin/..."

Randall Schulz


>     Igor


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