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Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:12:23 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to (dynamically) control Unix/Dos PATH-like variable translation
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104010025530.14975-100000@ann.ied.com>; from cygwin-user@ied.com on Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:53:28AM -0500

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:53:28AM -0500, Jan Vicherek wrote:
>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.

The main reason for this is that it isn't possible.  Don't know why you think
that this list is flexible.  It isn't.

cgf

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