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RE: competition for HOME environment variable
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: competition for HOME environment variable
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:34:18 -0400
> From: Jean-Philippe Grivet [mailto:grivet@cnrs-orleans.fr]
> Subject: competition for HOME environment variable
> ...
> I have tested cygwin software in a very limited fashion (vim and gcc,
> mostly) and find that they perform satisfactorily.
GOOD!
>
> My guess is that cygwin, Astex, and Scilab (all ports of
> Linux programs)
> require HOME environment variable.
> This was previously defined in order to use a WIN port of Emacs along
> with Astex.
>
> This seems to be confirmed by the cygcheck file which is
> appended. This
> file also contains unwanted references to Borland C directory
> and files.
>
> So my question is: how can I resolve this conflict betwen two programs
> that use the same environment variable ?
What's there to resolve? Your system seems to be running properly.
Are you having some difficulty not mentioned in your post?
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