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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:26:58 +0100
From: Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>
To: Ali Irfan Ustek <aliustek@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin and Msys
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Quoting Ali Irfan Ustek <aliustek@gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I installed Msys to test MingW and uninstalled them both.  However now
> my HOME path is set to /cygdrive/c/msys/1.0/home and I can't get my
> home directory back.
>

No idea as to why this has happened. But please have a look at  
/etc/profile. This file lists the various ways, and their order of  
precedence, of how HOME is set. Installing Msys or MingW may have  
altered one of the relevant settings.

regards,
Markus


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