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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:13:44 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Environment variables for DOS programs
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On Apr  7 15:03, levent wrote:
> 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?

man tcsh

See the difference between set and setenv.

Corinna

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