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Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)?
- From: Kptain <kaptain dot biwouak at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 02:39:45 -0700 (MST)
- Subject: Re: How to specify the user directory OUTSIDE of Cygwin (installation folder)?
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I suggest to reuse Windows environment variable: $USERPROFILE
Just redefine new home directory:
setenv HOME $USERPROFILE/home (for example if you expect a folder outside
cygwin folder itself)
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