How create variables to hold directory names on Windows bash?

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:10:07PM -0500, Robb, Sam wrote:
>   - Windows users will immediately find bash much more familiar and
>     usable - after all, a *real* program has to take a few seconds
>     just to start up, right?  We could probably peg the CPU usage
>     with a busy loop just to make it obvious that when you start up
>     a bash shell, you're must *really* be doing something significant...

??  bash --login -i  already does that for me.