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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:56:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd AT panix DOT com>
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Subject: Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin  was  installed from Windows?)
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Linda Walsh <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org> wrote:
> Then anything else in "Cygwin" that uses paths -- including setup's
> "cygwin.bat" could use %CygWinDir%

Not that there's being a vote taken or anything, but I would like to
support that notion.  I have several "trampoline" scripts, a bat file
doing nothing but invoking a corresponding bash shell script or Perl
program.  I have to hard-code a location for the bash / perl
interpreter, but those locations change from user to user (some people
install under c:\, some under the standard location).  I would like to
have the scripts work for any system.

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Tim McDaniel, tmcd AT panix DOT com

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