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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:42:03 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Home directories and spaces
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:23:47AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Tim Largy wrote:
> > What are most people using as
> > their home directories, and from the multitudinous ways of setting it,
> > what is the preferred method?
> 
> The Cygwin default home dir is /home/username. Did you change it
> deliberately, or did you have a HOME variable in your environment, from some
> other program?

Actually mkpasswd tries using the home directory specified by Windows (if any)
and only defaults to /home/username if needed.

> Try to avoid having spaces in directory names. In an ideal world, it
> shouldn't matter, but it unfortunately there are too many scripts with poor
> quoting out there.

There was another thread yesterday on a similar subject. Opinions vary
between having 2 separate directories for Windows and cygwin, a common directory 
(as you do), or a Cygwin home that points to the Windows home through a 
symbolic link or a mount point, etc...

Pierre

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