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On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:58:41PM +0000, Steve Smith wrote:
>Hi, upon seeing
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00090.html
>
>I downloaded the latest complete stable cygwin, after changing the  
>tcl version to the updated version. I then downloaded the latest  
>snapshot of cygwin1.dll and installed that (http://cygwin.com/ 
>snapshots/cygwin1-20060319.dll.bz2).
>
>The problem has not been fixed...did I not get the installation correct?
>
>export F=1
>>tclsh
>puts [ exec sh -c "echo $F" ]
> can't read "F": no such variable

You might want to think about how $F is evaluated above.  It isn't evaulated
by 'sh'.  It's evaluated by tclsh.

  puts [ exec sh -c "echo \$F" ]

will work better.

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