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Re: login error with pserver on Windows 98


From: Derek R. Price
Subject: Re: login error with pserver on Windows 98
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:14:20 -0400

It's HOMEDRIVE & HOMEPATH and neither's listed in my System Environment panel
but if I start a DOS window and run set, they're both defined.  I think it has
something to do with the MSDOS prompt.  I've seen it on several versions of
NT and I don't have anything in my autoexec.

Derek

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Dennis Jones wrote:

> They must be implicitly defined, because there are no environment variables
> with those names that I can find.
>
> - Dennis
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derek R. Price" <address@hidden>
> To: "Dennis Jones" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "David L. Martin" <address@hidden>; "CVS Mailing List"
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 7:19 AM
> Subject: Re: login error with pserver on Windows 98
>
> > Dennis Jones wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks.  The NT client didn't have a HOME variable set, and yet it
> > > worked.  So, I don't understand why, but setting the HOME environment
> > > variable in Windows 98 did the trick. Thanks again. - Dennis
> >
> > I believe NT automatically sets HOMEDRIVE and HOMEDIR or something
> > similar, which CVS knows it can squish together to compose HOME.  98
> > doesn't set those so CVS needs HOME set.  Incidentally, if you set
> > HOME on NT, I think CVS would use it instead, but there's no need.
> >
> > Derek




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