ncftp 3.1.4 bookmark save problem

[Dino Morelli]

At 02:02 PM 9/28/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Dino Morelli wrote:
>
> > I just got the nearly complete cygwin setup this week (minus XFree86) and
> > have noticed that ncftp is having a problem saving bookmarks.
> >
> > My $HOME is /cygdrive/c/Document and Settings/stimpleton
> > (yes, with spaces, God damn Windows to hell)
> >
> > It's not making a $HOME/.ncftp directory and fails even if I make one for
> > it and do 'chmod 666 $HOME/.ncftp'
> >
> > The error message I get is "Sorry, configuration information is not saved
> > for this user."
> >
> > I also tried to set $NCFTPDIR to something non-spacey like /cygdrive/c and
> > it still fails to create bookmark info at that location. (as per the man
> > page on environment variables that ncftp is supposed to use)
> >
> > I'm running under Windows XP Pro SP1
>
>Hmm, Windows usually names that directory "Documents and Settings" (notice
>the "s").  Just making sure you're using the right one (which you should
>be, since you can create a $HOME/.ncftp), so just covering the bases here.

Well, truth is I have to do 'mkdir "$HOME/.ncftp"' quoted because of the 
spaces in HOME. But this type of home variable has been cool with the other 
parts of cygwin that I've been using for a long time.

I'm not 100% certain, but I think this used to work for ncftp at some point 
in the not-so-distant. With the spacey HOME, I mean.


>What is your $CYGWIN setting?  Are you running ncftp from a bash shell, or
>from a shortcut?  If the latter, is your $CYGWIN set in .bashrc or
>similar, or is it set in the Windows environment?

CYGWIN is not set at all
I'm running from bash


>ncftp seems to extract the value of $HOME from /etc/passwd, rather than
>from the current value of $HOME...  What is your home directory set to in
>/etc/passwd?

Hm. in /etc/passwd my home is /home/[username]
All users' homes are like that under /home  I wonder if this has always 
been in cygwin. I never looked in /etc/passwd before.

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