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RE: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has spaces


The best solution would be to not have spaces in HOME at all, since it
breaks many a good program.  For example, if you wanted your home directory
to be "C:\Documents and Settings\palau\My Documents", you could use
"C:\Docume~1\palau\MyDocu~1" or a mount point.

Brad Town


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ignasi Palou-Rivera [mailto:palou@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:33 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has
> spaces
> 
> 
> The default /etc/profile for the 1.1.4 version of CygWin chokes when
> HOME is defined including blanks. The solution is to quote the
> reference to $HOME in line 14:
> 
> IPALOU$ diff profile profile.orig
> 14c14
> < if [ ! -d "$HOME" ]; then
> ---
> > if [ ! -d $HOME ]; then
> 
> I'm running under Win2000, but I'm sure that's irrelevant.
> 
> Ignasi.

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