Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:13:44 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Environment variables for DOS programs Message-ID: <20040407201344.GB32457@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Apr 7 15:03, levent wrote: > Hi, > > From my Cygwin terminal, I want to call DOS programs which require > some environment variables to be set properly (such as the commandline > utility *link.exe* of Visual Studio) for current session. > > Unfortunately, this was not possible by simply setting the variables in > the shell (I am using tcsh). Link.exe refuses to see the environment > variables defined in tcsh. Is this the desired behaviour? Is there > anyway to make the DOS programs see the environment variables in Cygwin > shells? Or am I making a fundamental mistake in expecting such a behaviour? man tcsh See the difference between set and setenv. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/