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Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 21:43:06 +0200
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> There is already an undocumented way to do this in cygwin via the
> Program Options registry key.  Create a new key:
> 
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options

I'm very happy with that!

> under this, you can create an string entry named "default" with data
> containing CYGWIN environment variable options.  If you add an "export"
> option to the end of the data values, a CYGWIN environment variable will
> be regenerated from the registry and visible in the environment.

nice feature to - do i need the CYGWIN-ENV-Variable anywhere?

> The main reason this this is not documented is that there is no
> programmatic way to manipulate it and I am not comfortable with telling
> people how to edit the registry "by hand".

hmmm - do you think there are still users that don't know regedit? hmm - 
perhaps some linux-freaks.

> However, if you are familiar with the registry, then setting this value
> should not be a big deal.

sure

Thx for that feature :-)


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