X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0	tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Message-ID: <4DF7032F.6060301@ludens.elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:43:59 +0200
From: szgyg <szgyg AT ludens DOT elte DOT hu>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; hu; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: TMP and TEMP get redefined, but I need the original values
References: <4DF4FDAC DOT 8010809 AT web DOT de>
In-Reply-To: <4DF4FDAC.8010809@web.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-ELTE-SpamScore: -8.0
X-ELTE-SpamLevel:
X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no
X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0
X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-8.0 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,L_AUTH autolearn=ham SpamAssassin version=3.3.1	-1.0 ALL_TRUSTED            Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP	-5.0 L_AUTH                 Caesar auth	-2.0 BAYES_00               BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1%	[score: 0.0000]
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On 6/12/2011 7:55 PM, Roland Bluethgen wrote:
> Looking for the cause I found out that the Cygwin maintainers chose to
> redefine the TEMP and TMP environment variables in /etc/profile
>
> However, now I'm unable to find out
> the original TEMP setting from a script.

Windows stores the environment variables in the registry, under 
`HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment' and 
`HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session 
Manager\Environment'. You can access these through /proc/registry in 
cygwin. For an example see the PRINTER setting in /etc/profile.

szgyg

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple