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Environment variable documentation
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:04:13 -0500
- Subject: Environment variable documentation
The discussion currently going on in the thread
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/threads.html#00892
makes me think that the section on environment variables in the user's
guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html) could use
some expansion. For example, it's not stated explicitly which Windows
environment variables get imported into Cygwin (all of them?), nor is
there a complete list of variables containing paths that get converted
to Unix format. PATH, HOME, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are mentioned, but
TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP are omitted. I think the last three should be
listed, along with the suggestion that users might want to unset them in
the Cygwin environment.
I would be willing to take a stab at writing a patch if the developers
think this would be useful.
Ken
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