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HOME when using both cygwin and cygwin64
- From: Eliot Moss <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:18:10 -0500
- Subject: HOME when using both cygwin and cygwin64
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- Reply-to: moss at cs dot umass dot edu
Dear Cygwin-ers -- I solicit suggestions around the following.
For a long time I have used cygwin (32 bit) almost exclusively,
and in that universe my home directory is /home/moss, which in
Windows land is C:\cygwin\home\moss. Now I also have cygwin64
installed under C:\cygwin64, with another home directory there,
C:\cygwin64\home\moss. When I start a 64-bit bash in a 64-bit
xterm, HOME gets set to /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/moss. Does
this seem right? It seems counter-intuitive to me -- should
it not be /home/moss, namely C:\cygwin64\home\moss? If that
would be better (I think so), how can I best achieve it?
Regards -- Eliot Moss
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