bash and ~

[Daniel Karipides]

I tried to check the archives for this, but couldn't find any mention
of the following problem.

I have defined the enivornment variable $HOME to:

D:\Users\smith

I need it defined this way so that emacs (among other programs) works
correctly when not started from bash.  However, in bash I noticed the
following:

bash$ echo $HOME
D:\Users\smith        <--seems to work

bash$ cd ~
bash.exe: D:Userssmith: No such file or directory

It seems that the \'s have been removed, which I guess makes sense
under bash.  Changing HOME to D:\\Users\\smith works for ~, but
unfortunately doesn't work for emacs outside of bash, etc...

I apologize if this is a problem with a well known solution, but I
couldn't find it mentioned on any of bash/cygwin set up web pages.

Thanks in advance,

-Dan Karipides
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