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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:32:41 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: tcsh and chere-0.3-1
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:20:55PM -0600, Andrew Grimm wrote:
>I think with most login shells the "cd $HOME" behavior is due to the way
>the scripts are written in /etc (for example Cygwin's /etc/csh.login).
>That is probably a good thing to have in the script, but it presents a
>difficulty for this unusual application.

Aha.  I didn't know that this was something we were doing.

If that is the case then maybe we could get some coordination going and
set a CYGWIN_CD_HERE environment variable or something and just have the
login shell cd to the right directory automatically with the help of
the /etc/* scripts.

cgf

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