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Re: tcsh broken? WAS Re: Running tcsh in rxvt
- To: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit at mit dot edu>
- Subject: Re: tcsh broken? WAS Re: Running tcsh in rxvt
- From: Michael Hoffman <grouse at mail dot utexas dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:35:50 -0500 (CDT)
- cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> Now I have another problem; tcsh seems to be broken
> I set /etc/csh.login to:
> echo "Global csh initialization"
> if (! $?HOME ) setenv HOME "/home/$USER"
>
> The straight NT port of tcsh picks it up however the cygwin tcsh does not;
> I get no echo and no $HOME. This would appaear to be a known issue:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00516.html
Yes, and Corinna noted that again today. If it were me, I would just
set the environment variable in Windows. In Windows 2000 you can do
this:
Start > Settings > Control Panel > System
Advanced > Environment Variables...
[User variables for (your userid)] New...
Set HOME to the cygwin path for your home directory.
--
Michael Hoffman <grouse@mail.utexas.edu>
The University of Texas at Austin
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