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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:01:51 +0100
From: "Benjamin Lindner" <lindner AT flll DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Environment variables & system privilages
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>>
>> 1. What's the "right" way to add add environment variables into the user
>> and system maps?
>
>Well, that's probably the best you could hope for, if you want system-wide
>settings.  I'm not aware of any other command-line tool that would set
>these.  If you only want to set environment variables for Cygwin shells,
>you might want to edit /cygwin.bat instead.
>

there is a command line tool from the w2k ressource tools named SETX.EXE
doing a google search reveals the links to ms homepage.
It is supposed to set environment variables for local user and/or 
local machine from command line.

you might give it a try

benjamin


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