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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:59:33 -0400
To: "Tom Plane" <tom AT tomplane DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: change opening path
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At 12:41 PM 9/1/2004, you wrote:
>When I open the shell and check the path (pwd) it's reply is
>/cygdrive/h. The H drive is my home drive at work. To get to the C drive
>(cygdrive/c) I have to cd. 
>How do I change the opening path from H to C permanently?


Set your home path in '/etc/passwd' to the directory you want.  Edit the 
file directly or just use 'mkpasswd -p'.




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