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Date:	Mon, 7 May 2001 11:00:33 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygapp <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Forcing SYSTEMROOT (opinions needed)
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In-Reply-To:	<20010507130501.Z24200@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin-apps@cygwin.com on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:05:01PM +0200

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:05:01PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>What I think is, we are not at the end of the process of adding
>options to Cygwin. As Chris I would like to restrict the length
>of the CYGWIN variable but in contrast to Chris I don't want to
>restrict the number of settings at all.

I'm not trying to restrict the length of the Cygwin environment
variable.  I'm trying to keep the number of settable options in check.

Adding a file for cygwin to parse doesn't help this in any way.

cgf

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