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Re: Determine home directory during install
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Brian Mathis <brian dot mathis at gmail dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:50:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Determine home directory during install
- References: <183c528b0609080803i64d4505awb66ef0b3554a3301@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Brian Mathis wrote:
> I've noticed that when I install cygwin fresh on a new machine, my
> home directory seems to change location. Sometimes it's in
> C:/cygwin/home/[user], but on this machine for some reason its in
> C:/Documents and Settings/[user].
>
> How does the installer determine where to put it? I have admin rights
> and access to create directories. The only difference with this
> machine is that it's on a domain. The other machines I use are
> standalone (like at home).
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home>.
HTH,
Igor
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