From: mh@mike.franken.de (Michael Hirmke) Subject: Re: startup help with bash 15 May 1998 14:41:25 -0700 Message-ID: <6tpDkYDppfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Hi Monjar,, >I use bash on DEC Unix and Linux and am just starting with it on NT. A >Couple of easy questions that I can't find docs for: > >1. what determines where my home dir is? The env var HOME. >2. does win32 bash use the same startup files (.bash_profile, etc) in the >same manner as its unix brethren? Jepp, it does. >3. if the answer to #2 is Yes then how do I make it read them. Maybe a flag >on the bash invocation in the bat file? Nope, you just have let bash find them by setting HOME as appropriate. > > >Daniel Monjar / mailto:dmonjar@orgtek.com Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke | Telefon +49 (911) 557999 Georg-Strobel-Strasse 81 | FAX +49 (911) 557664 90489 Nuernberg | E-Mail mailto:mh@mike.franken.de | WWW http://minimike.franken.de/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".