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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:10:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: david sarraf <david_sarraf AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin Newbie Question
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, david sarraf wrote:

> Hi, I have installed Cygwin a few times over the past couple of days. For
> some reason, The /home and /dev directory, and the environment variables(eg.
> PATH)do not get set up properlly.
>
> When I use startxwin.bat at least the PATH variable is set up. Also for some
> reason the .bash_history file is in my c:\ directory, even though I
> installed cygwin in c:\cygwin.
>
> For now I have manually created the home directory and set the path.
> I would appreciate any pointers on how to have the installation go
> smoothly/where it is possibly going wrong.
>
> Dave

Please attach the output of "cygcheck -svr" as per <http://cygwin.com/bugs.html>.
	Igor
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