Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: levent Subject: Environment variables for DOS programs Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 15:03:12 -0400 Lines: 20 Message-ID: Reply-To: sly5+gmane AT pitt DOT edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pick.me.pitt.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MultiZilla/1.6.2.0c Hi, From my Cygwin terminal, I want to call DOS programs which require some environment variables to be set properly (such as the commandline utility *link.exe* of Visual Studio) for current session. Unfortunately, this was not possible by simply setting the variables in the shell (I am using tcsh). Link.exe refuses to see the environment variables defined in tcsh. Is this the desired behaviour? Is there anyway to make the DOS programs see the environment variables in Cygwin shells? Or am I making a fundamental mistake in expecting such a behaviour? Thank you, -Levent -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/