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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> This can be done now, if you look back through the thread to all the
> different options I outlined and even a few scripts others have thrown
> in.  What Linda is proposing here is simply having the mechanism for
> communicating this be an environment variable.  While this could arguably
> make it easier to do what you want, it doesn't mean that you can't do
> it now for either Cygwin 1.5 or the upcoming 1.7 (though you may be
> required to do something different for 1.5 and 1.7.)

For what it's worth, you can easily retrieve a known registry
key (that you have permission to access) using a batch file
and then store that in a temporary variable. (I'm sure the gurus
already know this)

I really dislike software that pollutes my environment for me, but
I really like software that lets me do it myself, if that makes any
sense.

Ralph



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