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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:13:30 -0500
From: Chris W <1qazse4 AT cox DOT net>
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Subject: Re: home directory.
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Larry Hall wrote:

>Look at 'etc/defaults/etc/profile'.  It explains how Cygwin looks for
>and determines what to set HOME to.  You should be able to track what's
>going on from there.
>
>  
>
 From what I read there it seems it is setting home based on the values 
of HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH but before it does that it first checks the 
/etc/passwd file for a path entry for the user and by default there 
isn't one, and now I can't find where HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH get set, I 
just added /home/administrator to the appropriate line in the 
/etc/passwd file and that took care of it.

Now if I could just figure out why, when I hit the [Delete] key in bash, 
I get a '~' character instead of deleting the character the cursor is 
at, I would be set.  At least as far as cygwin goes anyway.

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