Re: Windows home directory

[Michael Hoffman <grouse at mail dot utexas dot edu>]

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, friedman_hill ernest j wrote:

> how many people actually use their Windows "home directory" as their
> Cygwin home?

I do, spaces and all, without incident that I can remember. I set up a
symlink /home/grouse -> /home/Michael\ Hoffman for some reason. Maybe I
was having some kind of incident at one point. :-)

> Therefore, I've always used a /home/userid directory in the cygwin tree,
> and everything has always worked great for me.

I think that is great.

> In Word, I set the default document folder toi something other than the
> default "My Documents" folder, and I do similar things to other
> programs.

Try Microsoft's Tweak UI Power Toy. You can reset these folders for all
programs. In Tweak UI XP, try My Computer > Special Folders.
-- 
Michael Hoffman <grouse@mail.utexas.edu>
The University of Texas at Austin


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