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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:38:54 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Prakash Khemani wrote:
> 
> Yes. Setting the SYSTEMROOT environment variable in Apach'e CGI
> environment did it. "Thou shalt not unset SYSTEMROOT" is a good
> commandment to stick with.
> 
> Thanks everybody for the excellent help!

Since this has come up a few times recently and is somewhat non-obvious,
any chance of having it added to the Cygwin FAQ?  Perhaps the Apache
README would be a better place, but it would seem to apply to any
situation where some program "cleans" the environment and then Windows
functions start to mysteriously fail.

Brian

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