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From: Dario Alcocer <alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com>
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 05:02:06 -0700
To: "Anderson, Michael" <manderson AT magisnetworks DOT com>
Cc: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Troubles setting NT environment variables
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>>>>> "Michael" == Anderson, Michael <manderson AT magisnetworks DOT com> writes:

    Michael> Cygwin is not seeing my newly created NT environment
    Michael> variables.  I have a Perl script that calls a DOS
    Michael> executable (vsim) from the BASH shell.  The NT
    Michael> environment variable I created is not being seen by BASH
    Michael> or DOS using Cygwin. I created the Variable using the
    Michael> User Environment Variable editor under the Advanced tab
    Michael> of the System Properties...

    Michael> Anyone have an idea of what needs to be done for Cygwin
    Michael> to see new Environment Variables?

Have you tried setting %ENV before calling the system command?  I
believe Perl will initialize the child process environment with the
values in %ENV before it runs it.

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Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com -- http://www.helixdigital.com

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