> > home not being set is not good- it sounds as though the .profile wasn't > > getting run. You should be able to run it manually by typing > > . .profile (from the directory the profile resides in) > Okay, now I'm finally getting somewhere. I managed to run the profile and it works!- it isn't changing the username as requested: although I have this line in USER="MairAllenWilliams" the bash is still coming up with: Mrs E Allen-Willaims@BIZZYLIZZY C:/Mair The FAQ or somewhere said the spaces in the name might cause problems. Don't know... Anyway calling gcc, etc now works! Yippee! Thankyou people (O: Oh but one more thing - it still isn't automatically running the .profile when I open bash. I have to do it every time...looking at google again it came up with very few hits but something about a -login? I tried "bash -login" from an MS-Dos prompt but came up with the same shell I get by double clicking...any ideas please? Cheers Mair -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
