Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?

[Helge Hess]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> How do you do that in XP?  Hack the registry?

Hm, I thought setting the HOME/USER environment variables in 
System/Advanced/Env works ? (only have Win2000 German ... ;-)

> > We could also make b) the default for Windows ? (GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT isn't
> > in HOME, but rather in a subdir of GNUstep ...) Defaults should
> > autocreate the /Users/$USER dir on access.
>
> Yes ... but we'd need to strip any spaces from $USER first of course, since
> windows usernames are sometimes things like a persons full name.

Yep. Just strip all spaces, IMHO.

BTW: All this stuff is true for MacOSX as well ...

Greetings
  Helge
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