Re: TMP and TEMP get redefined, but I need the original values

[szgyg <szgyg at ludens dot elte dot hu>]

On 6/12/2011 7:55 PM, Roland Bluethgen wrote:
> Looking for the cause I found out that the Cygwin maintainers chose to
> redefine the TEMP and TMP environment variables in /etc/profile
>
> However, now I'm unable to find out
> the original TEMP setting from a script.

Windows stores the environment variables in the registry, under 
`HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment' and 
`HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session 
Manager\Environment'. You can access these through /proc/registry in 
cygwin. For an example see the PRINTER setting in /etc/profile.

szgyg

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