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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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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?
I've gotten around this by modifying the cygwin batch file, but that will
probably only be good until I update cygwin.
Thanks,
Bill
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