From: lka@physic.ut.ee (Andres Heinloo) Subject: Re: What about HOME and USER when starting Cygwin B20.1 6 Dec 1998 20:47:42 -0800 Message-ID: References: <006801be2119$1f2574c0$4e28c6c3@p4kpm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Christian_J=F6nsson?= Cc: GNU Win32 On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Christian Jönsson wrote: > export USER=chj # That's my Username in then Win98 registry, others exit on my machine. > export HOME=/WINDOWS/Profiles/$USER > cd > > That would be handy to have automatically. I guess that the problem of > getting the Username out of the registry isn't that easy, is it? export HOME=`logname` Andres. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".