A few hours ago, I installed Apache 2 for Windows. About 90 minutes ago, I started a terminal session, and discovered that my home folder had been changed from path "c:\cygwin\home\{myusername}" to path "c:\Documents and Settings\{myusername}". I did not make this change consciously, but I suspect that either Apache, or a subsequent half-hearted attempt to update <?!> OpenSSH for Windows may have done so without my knowing it.

In any case, where in the configuration files of any of the three forenamed packages (bundles, applications, utilities, whatever the right name for them is) is such a thing as a home folder defined? I've already taken a peek at c:\cygwin\etc\passwd and it shows my home folder path simply as "home/{myusername}". No help there.

Inevitably, this renders quite a few of my aliases in my previously known-good .bash_aliases file pretty much useless until and unless I edit them to reflect the change in starting places. I have done so, but I hope I don't have to keep them that way for long.

Also, I have an rxvt that I use outside of XWindows, and it has all of a sudden decided to call itself xterm (the return I got from an echo $TERM command). So there's more than just default home paths involved.

Hope someone out there can help me with this, or at least point me towards some help.

BZT