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Re: Problems with lilypond and MS XP
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Mats Bengtsson |
Subject: |
Re: Problems with lilypond and MS XP |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:08:49 +0200 |
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The folder name of your default home directory is taken from
your Windows login name, so that's where the spaces come from.
You could easily define a new home directory such as 'david':
- At the cygwin command promt:
mkdir /home/david
- Open the file c:\cygwin\etc\profile in wordpad or some other
text editor and add the following two lines at the top:
HOME=/home/david
export HOME
- The next time you start a new cygwin window, you should have
a working system.
Regarding the support for computer illiterates, I just noticed
at the lilypond-devel mailing list that you could expect an
even smoother solution than what you suggest very soon now.
Actually, even with the current system, the problem with spaces
in the login name is about the most serious complications you
could expect.
Mats
address@hidden wrote:
When I try to look at test.ly I get a list of warnings of things that
can´t be found. I found a thread in the FAQ´s that says that this is
because of spaces in the path. I threw everything out and put the stuff
I had downloaded into a folder without spaces and tried again, but it
insists on setting up a folder with my name and a space in the home
folder. I´m afraid I don´t understand what to do about this problem.
Have you ever thought about doing a download page for computer
illiterates? I´ve always been interested in Linux and open source
programs, but I have no experience with computer other than Windows and
Atari (thus revealing my age!) I think there are a lot of us out here
and many probably just give up without you ever hearing about them. A
page that explains the things that might seem strange to Windows users
might be helpful. I´d be happy to write the text for a page like that if
I ever understand how this works.
David Marcy
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