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RE: install cygwin in windows xp sp1


On 11 July 2006 17:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:07:31AM -0700, truelies wrote:
>> I am new to cygwin. I want to install it in windows xp sp1, but I can find
>> the home dictionary, use pwd, it's \cygdrive\r, any way to change it to
>> C:\Cygwin\Home\username? Thank you!
> 
> Sorry.  Cygwin emulates Linux.  Linux doesn't use path names like
> "c:\cygwin\home\username".
> 
> If you don't want to use the type of posix path names that Linux employs
> then maybe you shouldn't be using Cygwin.

  Well, according to

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home

the OP could set HOME to that in the windows environment vars and it'll be
automatically translated to /home/username in cygwin.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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