Re: cygwin-ENV-Variable

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On 5 Aug 2002, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 12:39, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > > The main reason this this is not documented is that there is no
> > > programmatic way to manipulate it and I am not comfortable with telling
> > > people how to edit the registry "by hand".
> > >
> > > However, if you are familiar with the registry, then setting this value
> > > should not be a big deal.
> > >  cgf
> >
> > What about regtool?  Or am I missing something?
>
> There is no abstracted way to manipulate it.
>
> i.e.:
> $ cygtweak --add-program-override --program=sshd --environment="foobar"
>
> regtool is the same as regedit from a user perspective.
>
> Rob

Robert,

Thanks for the explanation.  I've attached a cygtweak script ;-).  It
requires a patch to regtool (also attached), since the current version is
unable to create/modify values with '\\' in them.  Does it look
reasonable?
	Igor
P.S. cygtweak sounds wrong.  Feel free to rename it.
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