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Re: Setting $HOME for Windows

Dave Korn wrote: 
  The issue is that on a Unix system, you set your home dir by editing
/etc/passwd.  Leave the windoze environment alone.

I've set for a long time both the HOME windows environment, so other win32 native GNU applications are aware of it, and the /etc/password entry to the same value, properly /cygpathed/, with any problem.


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