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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:30:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: Problem with getenv
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Michael K Collison wrote:
> 
> 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.

could you post an example of the program which exersizes this error? I
use getenv("PATH") and it returns cygwin style PATH, e.g. uses '/' as a
separator.

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