At 02:04 AM 1/26/2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
I would still prefer that Cygwin Bash work correctly from a clean
install.
It does for some :-)
Elfyn, I think you're being too kind in this case. David's comment here
seems to completely miss the point made earlier. The problem is clearly
-Original Message-
From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:03 PM
To: Elfyn McBratney; cygwin; David Christensen
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash
$home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%
...
environments
At 04:20 PM 1/26/2003, Rolf Campbell wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:03 PM
To: Elfyn McBratney; cygwin; David Christensen
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash
David,
Wow, you've really done your homework :-D
Apparently, Dia has reset your HOME environment variable. The default
/etc/profile sets HOME only if it's not set before, and since Cygwin
processes inherit the Windows environment, well... In any case,
uninstallers rarely change back the
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote on Saturday, January 25, 2003 9:15 PM:
... Start-Settings-Control Panels-System ... HOME environment
variable ...
Start - Settings - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment
Variables shows:
HOMEC:\Documents and Settings\dpchrist
I
Start - Settings - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment
Variables shows:
HOMEC:\Documents and Settings\dpchrist
I believe that is correct.
IIRC windows only really uses HOME{DRIVE,PATH}.
Is that (HOME) set up in the system variabes or the user variables section?
Either
1. Cygwin Bash reports the present working directory as:
dpchrist@w2k30g ~
$ pwd
/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%
2. Yet Windows Explorer does not show any folder named bin, much less
bin\%USERPROFILE% under C:\cygwin\usr.
The usr/bin or usr\bin folder is normally created
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