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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 00:53:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Jan Vicherek <cygwin-user AT ied DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: How to (dynamically) control Unix/Dos PATH-like variable translation
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 Hi,


On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> If you are running the cygwin process 'env' then cygwin will convert
> some environment variables to UNIX format.  There's no way around
> that.

  How can I control which variables get translated Dos->Unix when starting
a CYGWIN binary from Windows and which variables get translated Unix->Dos
when starting a DOS/Windows binary from CYGWIN ?

  http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#USING-PATHNAMES says that
HOME, PATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are converted, but it doesn't say how to
control any additional ones in runtime. (I.e. I know I can always edit the
sources of Cygwin and recompile it, but I believe that runtime list of
converted ENV VARs would be *very* handy to *many* of us out there ... )


    Thanx,

       Jan

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