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RE: HELP: E:\cygwin & use of "Documents and Settings"
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:54:28 -0000
- Subject: RE: HELP: E:\cygwin & use of "Documents and Settings"
- References: <fr5v9f$h0j$1@ger.gmane.org>
Andrew Wan wrote on 11 March 2008 12:50:
> My home PC if Cygwin is installed on C:\ then it creates a home folder
> "C:\cygwin\home" and stores my personal profile/settings there.
>
> On my work PC Cygwin is installed in E:\. Cygwin uses "C:\Documents and
> Settings\Owner" as the personal profile/settings folder.
>
> Problem is, some scripts like Perl's CPAN doesn't work 100% because it
> doesn't like the spaces in "C:\Documents and Settings\" path. For example:
> sh: /cygdrive/c/Documents: No such file or directory
>
> HELP!
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.home
cheers,
DaveK
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