7 Components: the Function Pages - Developers

A few programs require the environment variable HOME in order to
determine your user directory. Set this variable to
c:\cygwin\home\[username], whereby username stands for the name
of the user registered in Windows. You can find this out easily by
checking who is being logged off in the logoff dialogue (START �
LOGOFF or SHUTDOWN). You can define HOME under Windows
NT, 2000 and XP by clicking on the “System” symbol in the “Control
Panel” (for XP, located under “Performance and Maintenance”),
select the “Expand” tab and click on the Environment variables
button. A list of existing environment variables will appear. With
New, you can add an additional user variable to which you can assign
the value explained above (see Fig. 10.3). Similarly, you should
set up a TEMP entry linking to any temporary directory, e.g.
c:\temp.
Under Windows 98 and ME, you must edit the file autoexec.bat
in C:\. At the end, add the lines
SET HOME=c:\cygwin\home\username
SET TEMP=c:\temp
Finally, for all versions of Windows, you should make sure that the
temporary directory indicated actually exists, so that a variable does
not link to nothing. Now you need to restart Windows 98 and ME.
Fig. 10.2
Setting
environment
variables for
Windows NT,
2000 and XP...
10.3 Installation under Windows �
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… and for Windows
98 and ME