competition for HOME environment variable
Robinow, David
drobinow@dayton.adroit.com
Thu Aug 23 06:34:00 GMT 2001
> From: Jean-Philippe Grivet [ mailto:grivet@cnrs-orleans.fr ]
> Subject: competition for HOME environment variable
> ...
> I have tested cygwin software in a very limited fashion (vim and gcc,
> mostly) and find that they perform satisfactorily.
GOOD!
>
> My guess is that cygwin, Astex, and Scilab (all ports of
> Linux programs)
> require HOME environment variable.
> This was previously defined in order to use a WIN port of Emacs along
> with Astex.
>
> This seems to be confirmed by the cygcheck file which is
> appended. This
> file also contains unwanted references to Borland C directory
> and files.
>
> So my question is: how can I resolve this conflict betwen two programs
> that use the same environment variable ?
What's there to resolve? Your system seems to be running properly.
Are you having some difficulty not mentioned in your post?
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