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Re: set HOME environment
- To: Guansong Zhang <guansong at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: set HOME environment
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:14:28 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin users <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
--- Guansong Zhang <guansong@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I quoted as
>
> set HOME="%USERPROFILE%"
>
> but it does not help.
>
> Besides, HOME is an environment in DOS, right? at least in previous cygwin
> version. This works before, only when I add
>
> --login -i
>
> as bash arguments. The problem comes. The new system seems specify the
> /home/$USER as the default home.
>
See the /etc/profile file. It modifies these variables when --login is used.
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