On 2015-02-13 22:30, Denis Excoffier wrote: > > On 2015-02-13 22:04, Warren Young wrote: >> >>> On Feb 13, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Denis Excoffier <cyg...@denis-excoffier.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I tried (according to the new documentation): >>> >>> db_home: /%H/%U/cygdir >>> >>> and that was fine but %H was replaced by the >>> /cygdrive/C/Document and Settings/<user> prefix >> >> I don’t think you should use %H when that directory might contain spaces. >> It’s likely to cause many problems. > > You misunderstand. I don't need this stupid 'Document and Settings' thing. I > need %H to represent my home dir, that means > /cygdrive/d/Home/myuser1 on this XP P3 (a corporate one) and > /cygdrive/c/Users/myuser2 on this W7 (another corporate). > That way, using %H/%U/cygdir under both architectures would generate the > right thing. > > But currently, on XP SP3, the %H is replaced by '/cygdrive/d/Document and > Settings/myuser1' which i'm pretty > close to consider as a bug. Should be '/cygdrive/d/Home/myuser1' i suppose.
Oops. I'm wrong. Until this morning i really thought that XP comes with two "personal places" for each user: - C:/Home/user for the personal files of the user (that can be called the home directory) - C:/Document and Settings/user for the internal Windows files (Program Files etc.) not for normal user consumption This, because our IT people are keen enough to provide us a "secondary" place where to put our personal files. I imagine they had too many complaints about spaces in directory names. Sorry for the noise. Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
