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Re: Cygwin enviroment !C:=


Hello,

* On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:25:15PM +0200 S.Baunack@ifw-dresden.de wrote:

> When I display the environment variables in the bash shell using
> $ set
>
> On the PCs with IMOD running correctly I found these entries
[...]
> !D:='D:\cygwin\bin'	This is the path to Cygwin
> !X:='X:\'		This is HOMEDRIVE of Windows
> (PC: Windows XP Professional SP3 in a domain)
[...]
> What does "!drive" mean and how can I insert such expressions in the  
> environment variable?

I can only guess because I read just a few days ago this:

   http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2010/05/06/10008132.aspx

Did you start cygwin from cmd.exe (or via a .BAT or .CMD file) on the
machines where these entries are?

Best regards,
Spiro.

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