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From: "Ken Thompson" <ken DOT thompson AT gtri DOT gatech DOT edu>
To: "Cygwin List" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>,
   "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe AT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE>
Subject: RE: bash incorrectly determines HOME and HOMEDRIVE
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:14:25 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
>  Larry Hall
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 5:04 PM
>
>> Subject: Re: bash incorrectly determines HOME and HOMEDRIVE
>
>
> Larry Hall WroteK
>
> HOMEDRIVE is set by Windows.  You don't have to set it.  And bash wouldn't
> know HOMEDRIVE from a hole in the wall. ;-)
>
That is what I thought but I can definitely reproduce this behaviour on XP.
I set HOMEDRIVE in H: in windows and then run bash and its reset to C:.
Definitely strange. Not that I really care since I don't use it for
anything.  BTW, It is possible to change it in the ".bashrc" file

>


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