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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:56:20 +0100
From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe AT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>
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Subject: Re: bash incorrectly determines HOME and HOMEDRIVE
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Ken Thompson wrote:

> I don't think this is really a bash issue.  I think HOMEDRIVE is actually
> set by XP and bash is just importing it.  Cygwin has a default for NOME if

No. On my system, HOMEDRIVE was NOT set (neither for me personally, nor 
for all users.)

> it is not set but it is unlikely to be what you desire.  Just set the
> environment variable HOMEDRIVE to 'H:' and it will do exactly what you wish.
> The correct procedure on Cygwin is to manually set the environment variables
> to whatever you wish them to be

As I've already written in my original message, if I change it in XP, 
bash overwrites it. I can't imagine that this is correct behavior?!

Thanks,

Ralf

>>-----Original Message-----
>>
>>Ralf G. R. Bergs
>>Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:42 PM
>>
>>Subject: bash incorrectly determines HOME and HOMEDRIVE
>>
>>
>>[Please CC: me in your replies, since I'm not subscribed to this list. I
>>will post a summary if I receive enough response.]
>>
>>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>I've a quite unusual setup on my XP box since my profile directory is
>>NOT on the XP system drive. I moved it from there onto a separate
>>partition.
>>
>>ALL Windoze apps are happy and succeed to determine the correct profile
>>path when storing application data, but Cygwin fails. :-(
>>
>>My system drive is E:, and Cygwin incorrectly sets HOMEDRIVE to E: and
>>HOME to "E:\Documents and Settings\rabe". The correct location of HOME
>>is "H:\Documents and Settings\rabe", so HOMEDRIVE should be set to H:.
>>
>>I've manually set the correct values in XP's "System Properties ->
>>Environment Variables". That makes HOME appear correctly in a bash, but
>>HOMEDRIVE is still incorrect (E:). I suspect it's a bug in bash.
>>
>>Can anyone check whether my assumption is correct?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Ralf
>>
>>
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