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Re: How to (dynamically) control Unix/Dos PATH-like variabletranslation



 Hi Chris,

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Would it be useful?  Since this is the first time that I can recall that
> anyone has asked for this, I think it would be only marginally useful.

 Please see my post as of cca 2hrs ago in this same thread.

> If you are controlling the environment to such a state that you can add
> a CYGWIN_TRANSLATABLE variable, then just set the environment variables
> using posix paths.  I believe that Cygwin already handles the ones that
> should be handled.

  Since it cannot know of any applications, CYGWIN is currently only
handling the ones that should be handled for the OS (i.e. PATH and a
couple of others). But other apps need other VARs.

  Any comments are welcome !

    TTYL,

      Jan

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