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To: "Bill Pfeiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Windows home path
Bill Pfeiffer wrote:
Anyone know why the latest cygwin uses a path with spaces in it
(C:\Documents an
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a good long term solution.
Thanks,
Bill
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From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Pfeiffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Windows hom
> On 16 Jul, Larry Hall wrote:
> > > Anyone know why the latest cygwin uses a path with spaces in it
> > > (C:\Documents and Settings\username) for its home when it
> doesn't support
> > > spaces in paths?
>
> A little more investigation suggests that if you haven't run mkpasswd
> to create an /
On 16 Jul, Larry Hall wrote:
> > Anyone know why the latest cygwin uses a path with spaces in it
> > (C:\Documents and Settings\username) for its home when it doesn't support
> > spaces in paths?
A little more investigation suggests that if you haven't run mkpasswd
to create an /etc/passwd t
On 16 Jul, Larry Hall wrote:
> Where exactly do you see this path being used?
Let me butt in with a bit of info, FWIW.
A few months back I had to fix our local post-install script to quote
the $HOME variable because on some installs it was using a directory
with spaces for HOME: I think it was
Bill Pfeiffer wrote:
Anyone know why the latest cygwin uses a path with spaces in it
(C:\Documents and Settings\username) for its home when it doesn't support
spaces in paths?
Where exactly do you see this path being used?
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