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Re: setup.exe questions
- To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Subject: Re: setup.exe questions
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:58:26 -0800
- CC: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200002282321.PAA20673@cygnus.com> <20000228195005.C16566@cygnus.com> <38BC228C.F0B9AD49@vinschen.de>
> IMHO it would be a good idea to support copying some example scripts
> to the HOME dir as it's done similar when creating a new user
> in some Linux distributions. That would be very convenient for
> the normal user. I'm thinking of sth. like .profile, .cshrc, .vimrc
> etc.
>
> This would imply asking for a HOME dir (or setting one by default).
I'd really like to see a default home directory too. That by itself
would stop at least 10-15% of the questions that I've seen asked on the
cygwin list. (Though if someone comes up with the "Telepathically
communicate the contents of the manual" patch to the installer it would
be good)
-eric