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From: "John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Aliases no longer defined?
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:42:34 +0100
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> From: Peter Davis
> 
> What should it be?  I explicitly set HOME to be C:\home in Windows,
> for the benefit of emacs, etc.  I've done this for years, so it seems
> to be unrelated to the current problem.  In fact, I just checked, and
> the results of these commands are the same on my old Win2000 machine,
> where .bashrc worked.

Hi,

You don't actually need to explicitly set HOME anymore, cygwin's
come on over the years ;)

Somebody (pardon - I've deleted the mail) correctly said, you need
to add a . ~/.bashrc (or use source rather than .) to your ~/.bash_profile

Cygwin doesn't run ~/.bashrc by default - as the bash manual recommends.
It's on the 'todo' list to create a skeleton ~/.bash_profile, but I've
not got round to making it work correctly, sorry.

Oh, and alias in ~/.bash_profile doesn't (I believe) work, don't know
why.

You can still set your HOME, there's nothing (that I know of!) wrong
with doing so.

J.

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