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From: "Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject:  Re: The $HOME variable; rxvt and .inputrc
Date:  Wed, 17 May 2006 18:25:29 -0400
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"George" wrote in message news:20060515141649 DOT GA1592 AT home...
> 1.  Does the admonition against setting $HOME as a Windows environmental
> variable still stand, or was that an old wives' tale?
If $HOME is set it windows then it MUST be a windows path, or you can break
other (non-cygwin) programs that respect $HOME. Other than that
setting $HOME is fine, as cygwin will convert the variable to a unix style 
path. 



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