On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:27:25AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, John Morrison wrote:
>
> > Igor, think there's anything /etc/profile could do about this?
> >
> > J.
>
> John,
>
> This is thin ice... On one hand, we want to make things work pretty
> seamlessly. On the ot
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 16:08:39 -0400, Ji-Wei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned:
> My computer runs Windows 2000 Professional. I verified $USER is correct
> from cygwin but $HOME was not set during installation (I don't know
> why). I also noticed that the file /etc/profile does not seem to have the
My computer runs Windows 2000 Professional. I verified $USER is correct
from cygwin but $HOME was not set during installation (I don't know
why). I also noticed that the file /etc/profile does not seem to have the
lines to set HOME (comparing to other people's profile). Now I have to set
HOM
Sent: 01 October 2003 16:16 From: Igor Pechtchanski
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> > Furthermore could $HOME be defaulted to \home\'current_user' if not
> > explicitly set?
>It already is, except it's "/home/$USER", not "\home\$USER" (read up on
>POSIX vs Win32 paths in Cygwin if you
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote:
> Sent: 01 October 2003 14:27 From: Igor Pechtchanski
> > This is thin ice... On one hand, we want to make things work pretty
> > seamlessly. On the other, we don't want to limit the more advanced users
> > by not letting them change the home directory on
Sent: 01 October 2003 14:27 From: Igor Pechtchanski
> This is thin ice... On one hand, we want to make things work pretty
> seamlessly. On the other, we don't want to limit the more advanced users
> by not letting them change the home directory on the fly (anyone doing
> that, anyway?). One "sol
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, John Morrison wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote:
> >
> > > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I
> > > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I
> > >
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote:
>
> > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I
> > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I
> > started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not s
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote:
> I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I
> followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I
> started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not start in the
> /home/$USER directory ($USER means the use
I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I
followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I
started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not start in the
/home/$USER directory ($USER means the user name I use to log onto my
computer). The
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