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From:	"John Emmas" <johne53 AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Is this a known problem with getenv() ?
Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:54:44 -0000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Emmas"
>
> I might just try experimenting with a very simple program and see if I
> still get the error
>
I partially tracked down the problem, although I don't quite know how to
solve it.  If I write this simple console app:-

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main ()
{
   printf ( getenv ("PATH") );
   return 0;
}

it outputs the correct path.  However, if I create a GUI app and launch it
under 'X', the path seems to change and includes lots of duplicated folders.
I figured out that startxwin.bat is adding a few duplicated entries to my
path but that doesn't explain why there are so many duplications and I don't
know where the others might be coming from.  However, I don't get any
duplicates at all if I run XWin directly, instead of starting it with
startxwin.bat.

John


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