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Betreff: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home
/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%
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I have been using Cygwin on Win2k Pro SP3 for a while now, and really
like it. Today, I downloaded and installed Dia Win32 Installer. The
next time I started Bash, it was bro
--- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 07:23 PM 1/26/2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:30:23PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
> wrote:
> > >At 05:55 PM 1/26/2003, David Christensen wrote:
> > >>However, I still say there is a Bash/Cy
At 07:23 PM 1/26/2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:30:23PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >At 05:55 PM 1/26/2003, David Christensen wrote:
> >>However, I still say there is a Bash/Cygwin bug -- if Bash/Cygwin reads
> >>the Windows HOME environment variable
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:30:23PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 05:55 PM 1/26/2003, David Christensen wrote:
>>However, I still say there is a Bash/Cygwin bug -- if Bash/Cygwin reads
>>the Windows HOME environment variable and gets "%USERPROFILE%", it
>>should evaluate that to g
At 05:55 PM 1/26/2003, David Christensen wrote:
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>
>Larry Hall wrote January 26, 2003 1:44 PM:
> > there's an implication in all this that setting HOME breaks bash or
> > Cygwin.
>
>I infer from the above that the default Windows setting for HOME is no
>setting at all? e.g. the
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Larry Hall wrote January 26, 2003 1:44 PM:
> there's an implication in all this that setting HOME breaks bash or
> Cygwin.
I infer from the above that the default Windows setting for HOME is no
setting at all? e.g. the variable is undefined?
Testing the above hypothesis by d
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
> -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 /us
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 cl
> 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 norm
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Some more clues:
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".
3. Neither d
> 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
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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\dpc
Igor, David,
At 21:15 2003-01-25, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
David,
Wow, you've really done your homework :-D
I was thinking the same thing. Would that everyone was so diligent, eh?
Apparently, Dia has reset your HOME environment variable. The default
/etc/profile sets HOME only if it's not
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 environ
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have been using Cygwin on Win2k Pro SP3 for a while now, and really
like it. Today, I downloaded and installed Dia Win32 Installer. The
next time I started Bash, it was broken -- the prompt spans two (three?)
lines, Bash starts in the wrong directory, and $HOME environment i
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