The HOME variable

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, George wrote:

> Ken Dibble wrote:
>
> > I just edited the appropriate fields in /etc/passwd. (first field and
> > next to last field)
> >
> > Ken
>
> Thanks.  Now if the changing "Program Files" or "Documents and Settings"
> to something less inane would be so easy.

Getting to be off-topic for the Cygwin list, but here's a pointer:
<http://google.com/search?q=rename+%22documents+and+settings%22+directory+site%3Amicrosoft.com>
In particular, the first and fourth hits look relevant.

As for "Program Files", as far as I know, the name isn't special in any
way -- you can just rename it (and, of course, move all the programs
already installed there - yuk!), or, better yet, simply don't install
Cygwin under it...  Plus (to get this back on-topic), you can use Cygwin
mounts to hide the spaces in directory names, e.g., on my machine:

$ mount | grep java
c:\Program Files\IBM\Java14 on /usr/contrib/java type user (binmode)

HTH,
	Igor
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