Setting $HOME for Windows

[Andrew DeFaria]

George wrote:

> I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually 
> setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable.
>
> I can't seem to find the message, so if someone can elaborate on why 
> this is A Bad Thing, I'd appreciate it. This is for those of us 
> pursuing the Holy Grail of integrating Cygwin with Windows (or, 
> depending on one's view, Windows with Cygwin), and doing our best to 
> ignore the less-than-holy %USERPROFILE% construct.

Personally I believe I arranged for Cygwin's bash shell to utilize the 
actual home field in /etc/passwd (by changing /etc/profile). Next I 
mount <wherever Windows has my home> to /home. In the corporate 
environment where home directories are often stored on a server this 
would be a mount -bsf //server/homeshare /home. Then ls /home lists all 
user's home directories and /etc/passwd says home = /home/$USER.

At home I don't even use that silly C:\Documents and Settings\$USER crap 
and have successfully (though not easily) hacked the registry into using 
C:\Home\<username> and storing all configuration type data into 
C:\Home\<username>\Configuration - but that's me...
-- 
Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?


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