On 11 July 2006 17:58, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:07:31AM -0700, truelies wrote: >> I am new to cygwin. I want to install it in windows xp sp1, but I can find >> the home dictionary, use pwd, it's \cygdrive\r, any way to change it to >> C:\Cygwin\Home\username? Thank you! > > Sorry. Cygwin emulates Linux. Linux doesn't use path names like > "c:\cygwin\home\username". > > If you don't want to use the type of posix path names that Linux employs > then maybe you shouldn't be using Cygwin.
Well, according to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home the OP could set HOME to that in the windows environment vars and it'll be automatically translated to /home/username in cygwin. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/