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From: "Michael K Collison" <Michael_K_Collison AT iassoc DOT ultranet DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:48:30 -0400
Subject: Problem with getenv
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I have a small program that uses getenv to grab an environment variable.
Based on this variable I construct a path to a program. I them use this
path in a call to 'system' like this:

i = system(path);

The problem is that the path (returned from 'getenv') looks something like:

c:\\root\\subdir\\etc

The error I get from the system command is:

'c:rootsubdiretc: no such device or address

It's obvious that the system command is not parsing the path correctly. Is
there any way to solve this problem.

Mike



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