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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1
From: Denis Excoffier <cygwin AT Denis-Excoffier DOT org>
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On 2015-02-13 22:30, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> 
> On 2015-02-13 22:04, Warren Young wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 13, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Denis Excoffier <cygwin AT Denis-Excoffier DOT org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I tried (according to the new documentation):
>>> 
>>> db_home: /%H/%U/cygdir
>>> 
>>> and that was fine but %H was replaced by the
>>> /cygdrive/C/Document and Settings/<user> prefix
>> 
>> I don’t think you should use %H when that directory might contain spaces.  It’s likely to cause many problems.
> 
> You misunderstand. I don't need this stupid 'Document and Settings' thing. I need %H to represent my home dir, that means
> /cygdrive/d/Home/myuser1 on this XP P3 (a corporate one) and /cygdrive/c/Users/myuser2 on this W7 (another corporate).
> That way, using %H/%U/cygdir under both architectures would generate the right thing.
> 
> But currently, on XP SP3, the %H is replaced by '/cygdrive/d/Document and Settings/myuser1' which i'm pretty
> close to consider as a bug. Should be '/cygdrive/d/Home/myuser1' i suppose.

Oops. I'm wrong.

Until this morning i really thought that XP comes with two "personal places" for each user:
- C:/Home/user for the personal files of the user (that can be called the home directory)
- C:/Document and Settings/user for the internal Windows files (Program Files etc.) not for normal user consumption

This, because our IT people are keen enough to provide us a "secondary" place where to put our personal files. I imagine
they had too many complaints about spaces in directory names.

Sorry for the noise.

Denis Excoffier.
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