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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:08:12 +0200
From: a12 <a12 AT swipnet DOT se>
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Hello again,

I have found the culprit. My DOS environment contained variable HOME, so
echo %HOME% yielded:
C:\
By renaming HOME to HOME.org, and rebooting the PC, followed by a new 
Cygwin install, the problem vanished.

Have a nice day.

a12 wrote:

> Hello cygwin gurus,
>
> I have just fetched and installed Cygwin base. When I click on the 
> Cygwin icon, 'pwd' yields /cygdrive/c, and 'ls -l' yields:
> total 76
> drwxrwxrwx+   2 Sysaccou Users       53248 Sep 21 12:17 bin
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 Sysaccou Users          57 Sep 21 12:17 cygwin.bat
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 Sysaccou Users        7022 Sep 21 12:17 cygwin.ico
> drwxrwxrwx+   7 Sysaccou Users        4096 Sep 21 12:18 etc
> drwxrwxrwx+   5 Sysaccou Users        8192 Sep 21 12:17 lib
> drwxrwxrwx+   2 Sysaccou Users           0 Sep 21 12:17 tmp
> drwxrwxrwx+  12 Sysaccou Users        4096 Sep 21 12:16 usr
> drwxrwxrwx+   6 Sysaccou Users           0 Sep 21 12:17 var
>
> What have I missed ?
>
>
>
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