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Re: home directory.
Larry Hall wrote:
Look at 'etc/defaults/etc/profile'. It explains how Cygwin looks for
and determines what to set HOME to. You should be able to track what's
going on from there.
From what I read there it seems it is setting home based on the values
of HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH but before it does that it first checks the
/etc/passwd file for a path entry for the user and by default there
isn't one, and now I can't find where HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH get set, I
just added /home/administrator to the appropriate line in the
/etc/passwd file and that took care of it.
Now if I could just figure out why, when I hit the [Delete] key in bash,
I get a '~' character instead of deleting the character the cursor is
at, I would be set. At least as far as cygwin goes anyway.
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