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Re: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has s paces


What about having cygwin "\ " escape the spaces?

Worth a thought?

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Town, Brad" <btown@ceddec.com>; "'Ignasi Palou-Rivera'"
<palou@yahoo.com>; <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 12:55 AM
Subject: RE: CygWin 1.1.4: problem in default /etc/profile when HOME has s
paces


> Brad's comment is certainly valid but your solution, Ignasi, is already
> implemented in the current setup.exe.  IMO the better solution is to use a
> mount point like so (using Brad's example):
>   mkdir -p /home/palau ;# if it doesn't already exist
>   mount -b "C:/Documents and Settings/palau/My Documents" /home/palau
>
> I suppose that we should add a W2K entry in the TODO list for this issue.
>
> Cheers,
> Earnie.
> --- "Town, Brad" <btown@ceddec.com> wrote:
> > 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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