Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Chris Herborth Subject: Re: Setting $HOME for Windows Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:26:53 -0500 Organization: QNX Software Systems Ltd. Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <20041223173744 DOT GA752 AT home> Reply-To: cherborth AT qnx DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: entropy.qnx.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) In-Reply-To: <20041223173744.GA752@home> X-IsSubscribed: yes George wrote: > I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually > setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable. I set mine to something sensible (usually d:\home or d:\home\userid) before installing Cygwin; I've never had any trouble. Perhaps the issue is with the spaces in the default $USERPROFILE? -- Chris Herborth (cherborth AT qnx DOT com) Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/