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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:49:34 +1000 (EST)
From: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject: Re: Windows home path
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On 16 Jul, Larry Hall wrote:
>  > Anyone know why the latest cygwin uses a path with spaces in it 
>  > (C:\Documents and Settings\username) for its home when it doesn't support 
>  > spaces in paths? 

A little more investigation suggests that if you haven't run mkpasswd
to create an /etc/passwd that contains an entry for you, then Cygwin
will choose C:\Documents and Settings\username as the HOME for the
username.

luke


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