Re: The $HOME variable; rxvt and .inputrc

["Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat at hotmail dot com>]

"George" wrote in message 20060515141649.GA1592@home">news:20060515141649.GA1592@home...
> 1.  Does the admonition against setting $HOME as a Windows environmental
> variable still stand, or was that an old wives' tale?
If $HOME is set it windows then it MUST be a windows path, or you can break
other (non-cygwin) programs that respect $HOME. Other than that
setting $HOME is fine, as cygwin will convert the variable to a unix style 
path. 



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