Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Dario Alcocer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15107.48574.351572.174365@coyote.priv.helixdigital.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 05:02:06 -0700 To: "Anderson, Michael" Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: Troubles setting NT environment variables In-Reply-To: <07094CF930EBD311AF7900B0D020085150B9EE@ns.magisnetworks.com> References: <07094CF930EBD311AF7900B0D020085150B9EE@ns.magisnetworks.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid >>>>> "Michael" == Anderson, Michael writes: Michael> Cygwin is not seeing my newly created NT environment Michael> variables. I have a Perl script that calls a DOS Michael> executable (vsim) from the BASH shell. The NT Michael> environment variable I created is not being seen by BASH Michael> or DOS using Cygwin. I created the Variable using the Michael> User Environment Variable editor under the Advanced tab Michael> of the System Properties... Michael> Anyone have an idea of what needs to be done for Cygwin Michael> to see new Environment Variables? Have you tried setting %ENV before calling the system command? I believe Perl will initialize the child process environment with the values in %ENV before it runs it. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple