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Re: Troubles setting NT environment variables
- To: "Anderson, Michael" <manderson at magisnetworks dot com>
- Subject: Re: Troubles setting NT environment variables
- From: Dario Alcocer <alcocer at helixdigital dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 05:02:06 -0700
- Cc: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <07094CF930EBD311AF7900B0D020085150B9EE@ns.magisnetworks.com>
>>>>> "Michael" == Anderson, Michael <manderson@magisnetworks.com> writes:
Michael> Cygwin is not seeing my newly created NT environment
Michael> variables. I have a Perl script that calls a DOS
Michael> executable (vsim) from the BASH shell. The NT
Michael> environment variable I created is not being seen by BASH
Michael> or DOS using Cygwin. I created the Variable using the
Michael> User Environment Variable editor under the Advanced tab
Michael> of the System Properties...
Michael> Anyone have an idea of what needs to be done for Cygwin
Michael> to see new Environment Variables?
Have you tried setting %ENV before calling the system command? I
believe Perl will initialize the child process environment with the
values in %ENV before it runs it.
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Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com
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