> From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:10 PM
> On 8/18/2009 1:46 PM, Mike Ayers wrote:
> >
> > Well that was it, thanks, but why is ssh looking there? I thought it
> > (and all other apps) used HOME on cygwin?
>
> Nope. But if you think about it, if $HOME doesn't equal ~ for Cygwin,
> something has gone awry. Given that as context, it really wouldn't matter
> whether '/etc/passwd' or $HOME was the source.
So it gets ~ from /etc/passwd? Ah - didn't know that. I'll check it
in the future. I do think of cygwin as a Windows environment more than Unix,
so some of these things get by me. In years past, I would just set HOME and
all was well.
Thanks,
Mike
