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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:09:55 -0400
To: Chris W <1qazse4 AT cox DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: home directory.
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At 02:46 PM 6/16/2004, you wrote:
>Vince Hoffman wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>>>It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c.  I want it
>>>to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't
>>>already set to /cygdrive/c.  So where do I change that?
>>>
>>>   
>>Have a look at your windows environment variables. (type set from a
>>windows command prompt) or to see and change them (if on 2k/xp not sure
>>for 9x its been too long,) right click "my computer", select
>>properties, then select the "advanced' tab, then select environment
>>variables.
>> 
>
>I run set|grep HOME and sure enough HOME is set to cygdrive/c.  So I go to the environment vars from the my computer properties dialog but I can't find an entry for HOME in fact when I type set I get a MUCH longer list of environment vars than I see in the dialog box.  I also looked in the cygwin.bat file and all that is in there is this...
>@echo off
>
>C:
>chdir \cygwin\bin
>
>bash --login -i
>
>so where might that HOME var be getting set?  BTW I am runing win2k


Look at 'etc/defaults/etc/profile'.  It explains how Cygwin looks for
and determines what to set HOME to.  You should be able to track what's
going on from there.



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