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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: home directory.
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:12:54 +0200
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* Chris W (2004-06-16 22:13 +0100)
> 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,

By default there is one (generated by 'mkpasswd').

> and now I can't find where HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH get set [...]

These are Windows defaults.

> 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.

Just read the beginning of /etc/profile again. There you get answer
and also to your "bashrc" question.

Thorsten


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