[Xastir] Christmas present: Messaging Fixes

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 04:10:33PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 03:29:03PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jewen at shaw.ca> flavor, containing:
> > > > Log in to Windows or Cygwin?
> > > 
> > > Windows.  You'd need to create a new user and log in that 
> > > way.  Cygwin just pulls your user name out of whatever your 
> > > windows login is.
> > 
> > I changed my Windows login to jewen, and rebooted the computer. I'm now
> > logged into Windows as jewen. I started up Cygwin, and I'm logged into
> > Cygwin as James Ewen at VE6SRV.
> 
> Arrgh.  
> 
> I hope it isn't the case that cygwin saves the userid of the user that 
> installed it.  

Grumble.  Sorry I can't be more help, but when I log into the kid's machine 
as myself, cygwin tells me I'm "russo at thatmachine," when I log in as her it 
says I'm her, and when I create a new account called "Chauncey Hoffenagel" and 
start cygwin, I am told I'm "Chauncey Hoffenagel at thatmachine"

For this install I have only used cygwin for testing xastir hacks.  The 
one I talked about before with geda was on another machine, and it took
ages to figure out why cygwin always put me in the wrong directory --- only
by hunting through the registry was I able to find why the HOME variable was
set wrong.

If your cygwin is telling you you're "James Ewen at VE6SRV" and you're actually
logged in as jewen, there's something fishy somewhere confusing the issue.

Hmmmm.  There's one easy place to check --- you wouldn't, by any chance,
have put a "set HOME=" in one of the batch files that launches your cygwin
setup, would you?  

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