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Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:08:39 -0400
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From: Ji-Wei Wu <Ji-Wei DOT Wu-1 AT nasa DOT gov>
Subject: Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation
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My computer runs Windows 2000 Professional.  I verified $USER is correct 
from cygwin but $HOME was not set during installation (I don't know 
why).  I also noticed that the file /etc/profile does not seem to have the 
lines to set HOME (comparing to other people's profile).  Now I have to set 
HOME every time I start a cygwin shell.  Is there a way I can run the 
profile to set HOME permanently after installation? Thanks.

At 06:32 PM 9/30/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote:
>
> > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer.  I
> > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin).  After that, I
> > started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not start in the
> > /home/$USER directory ($USER means the user name I use to log onto my
> > computer).  The actual directory is /sygdrive/c, which means the c: drive
> > on my computer.  What went wrong in my installation and can anyone help me?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>At a guess, your HOME is set incorrectly in Windows.
>Please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
><http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  This will provide enough information
>to venture a better guess or to find a solution for your problem.
>         Igor
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