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From: Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
Subject: Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:22:58 -0500
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Francis Litterio wrote:
> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> 
> 
>>Secondly, if I could get my users to set their
>>"ApplicationPaths" I could as easily get them to set their PATHs. The real world
>>situation is that this is not the case and neither PATH nore ApplicationPaths
>>are set.
> 
> 
> Here's an idea: Traverse the directory %SystemDrive%\Documents and
> Settings\XXXX\Start Menu\Programs (where XXXX is "All Users" and also
> the user's username) looking for a directory named "Cygwin".  In that
> directory there are shortcuts that contain the path to various
> subdirectories of the Cygwin install directory.  The strings in the
> shortcut files may be Unicode, but the info is there.
> 
> Cygwin's setup.exe always creates a Start Menu entry, right?
Only if you don't unclick the option...
>  So those
> shortcuts should always be easy to find.  If a user has deleted his
> Start Menu entries for Cygwin, fall back to a full disk search for
> cygwin1.dll.
> --
> Francis Litterio
> franl AT world DOT std DOT com
> http://world.std.com/~franl/
> GPG and PGP public keys available on keyservers.



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