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Re: Windows home path
- From: luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:49:34 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Windows home path
On 16 Jul, Larry Hall wrote:
> > Anyone know why the latest cygwin uses a path with spaces in it
> > (C:\Documents and Settings\username) for its home when it doesn't support
> > spaces in paths?
A little more investigation suggests that if you haven't run mkpasswd
to create an /etc/passwd that contains an entry for you, then Cygwin
will choose C:\Documents and Settings\username as the HOME for the
username.
luke
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