Re: [Mingw-msys] Re: Pb with rxvt

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Luke Dunstan wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On a related note, the following line does not work for Win9x command.com:
> 
> if NOT DEFINED HOME set HOME=/home/%USERNAME%
> 
> There is no "if defined" so you need to do something like:
> 
> if "x%HOME%" == "x" set HOME=/home/%USERNAME%
> 

I'll take this into consideration for a change.

> Of course, the USERNAME variable is not set by Win9x either :). So either
> you can check that too, or remove the command entirely and set HOME from
> /etc/profile like you are already:
> 

The reason I want it set before starting bash is so that the
~/.bash_history file is put in the HOME directory instead of the /
directory.  So this doesn't do the job.  Yes, I need to look at the need
in the /etc/profile file.

> USER="`id -un`"
> # Set up USER's home directory
> if [ -z "$HOME" ]; then
>   HOME="/home/$USER"
> fi
> export HOME USER
> 
> As far as I know this works on NT/2K and 9x.
> 

Yes, but it's too late.

Earnie.

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