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Dunno if any of you use Cygwin on WinXX but I'm having a problem
with the current version (<a
href="http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-05/msg00019.html">1.7.15-1</a>)
that I haven't seen before.<br>
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Even though I see C:/cygwin as the value of the "rootdir" registry
key, in the Cygwin terminal window 'echo $ROOT' gives me nothing,
'cd ~' takes me to C:\, I have no prompt, nothing other than what
Windows seems to be setting in PATH, and I have no functional
command history. In C:\cygwin\etc\passwd, "/home/<username>"
is my home directory setting as Cygwin is supposed to interpret it,
but in the Cygwin window, 'echo $HOME' gives me C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>, which makes a certain sense but isn't
what I want. Any idea why ROOT isn't getting set at Cygwin terminal
launch time?<br>
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