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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:33:02 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space
From: "John Morrison" <john AT morrison DOT mine DOT nu>
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> I have just set up Cygwin, and noticed that my default home was under my
> "Documents and Settings" directory (not yet having run mkpasswd). However,
> the /etc/profile setup which tries to only create the warning message
> about running mkpasswd and mkgroup once can't deal with a HOME environment
> variable with a space in it. Here is a patch to allow that to work:

Thanks,

I'm away on a course at the moment and don't have access to the machine
with the files I use to generate the package.  I'll be back home on
Friday, I'll try and get something out over the weekend or by mid-week at
the latest.

J.


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