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Re: cygwin
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- Subject: Re: cygwin
- From: Heinz-Juergen Oertel <oe at port dot de>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 09:47:52 +0200
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Dietmar Lettau wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I use cygwin with w98.
> My question: how to install a thing like "/etc/profiles" or ~/.bashrc ?
> I want automatically some aliases to be loaded at startup.
>
> The bash uses c:\ as root (I assume: there lies the .bash_history), but
> it won't help when I place a '.bashrc' there (written with lower case).
>
> Please excuse my bad english,
>
> greetings
> Dietmar
>
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for using these files (.profile, .bashrc) in a "home"
you must have a HOME variable set with your home-path.
mkdir /home
mkdir /home/dietmar
cp .bashrc /home/dietmar
HOME must e set before calling bash, e.g. in a startup.bat (cygnus.bat)
set HOME c:\home\dietmar
works for me with cygwin b20.1
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