From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser) Subject: Re: cygwin32 environment variable 7 Jun 1998 11:14:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3579754c.512296.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail> References: <3577db22 DOT ccs AT ccs DOT covici DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi John, You wrote: >Hi again. Where can I find out about cygwin32 environment variable >options? I recently asked the same question and got the following answers: From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke): >It is not complete, but IMHO better than nothing: > >[no]strip_title - works in conjunction with 'title'. Strips the path spec > from what is displayed in the console title bar when the > program is run. > >[no]binmode - Use 'binmode' as the default open mode when the mode is > not otherwise specified in the open or by mount. > >[no]glob - Do not perform globbing operations on the command line when > a cygwin process is being invoked from a non-cygwin shell. > >strace - A cygwinb19.dll debugging aid. Setting mask to '1' will > cause reams of information about the operation of cygwin > to be written to 'file' as cygwin operates. The rest > of the bits control the display various cygwin subsystems. > For a complete list check out /usr/include/sys/strace.h. > The cache setting controls how much strace output will be > held in memory before being output to disk. > >Thi is, what Chris Faylor has written a few months ago, so there are have >been added a few more options: > >[no]tty >[no]title >...???... From: Sergey Okhapkin : >[no]tty - disable(default)/enable tty support for consoles. >[no]title - disable/enable(default) displaying of a current running proces's command line > on a console title. > >If you run my patched cygwinb19.dll, more options are available: > >[no]ntea - disable(default)/enable usage of extended file attributes on Windows NT. >[no]mixed - disable(default)/enable case-sensitive filenames on ntfs partitions. Hope that helps. :) BTW: What about adding it to the FAQ? I think it's quite comprehensive now... bye Micha - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".