Troubles setting NT environment variables

Dario Alcocer alcocer@helixdigital.com
Thu May 17 05:02:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "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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