Re: home directory.

[Chris W]

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
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