Persisting values of environment variables

[Dave Korn]

Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Nate Meyer on 11/23/2005 11:27 AM:
>> I'm trying to change the value of $HOME. If I do something like "export
>> HOME="c:/whatever" $HOME is changed for that session. But after Cygwin is
>> closed and restarted $HOME is set back to the default /home/user. How
>> can I persist the change to $HOME?
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> Windows way - [...snip!...]
 
> Cygwin way - [...snip!...]

  We should also point out that $HOME is a fairly special variable, and the OP
should also read

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home


    cheers,
      DaveK
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