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From: etoffi AT softhome DOT net
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Subject: Re: cygwin idea #2
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:52:35 GMT
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Avraham H. Fraenkel writes:

> 
> 1) I think it is OK, but environment set in a shell must overwrite everything
>    in registry.
>    One can look at the registry as a environment variable set by the CDE
>    environment at startup.
> 2) But cygwin is 'Unix' like - why not to use some default file for it.
>    it is more 'UNIX' like to use files instead of registry.
> 
> Avraham
> ---------------------------------------
> email : avraham DOT fraenkel AT comMATCH DOT com
> URL   : www.comMATCH.com
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2000 etoffi AT softhome DOT net wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ============================
> > i d e a  n u m b e r   t w o 
> > ============================
> > 
> > this is my second original cygwin idea.
> > 
> > **
> > on windows 9x, cygwin should attempt to read environment vaiables from the
> > registry.
> > **
> > 
> > short and sweet.
> > 
> > --
> > etoffi
> > 
> > --

too bad i didnt really think about this too much.   i was really intendind
this only for windows 9x, since thoses OSes dont have the same ability to
set the env. from a dialog like nt.

but, (i think) nt actually only checks this at login.

what i really wanted to do was allow 95, etc to read variables that i could
change after bootup (ie without autoexec.bat)

about .profile:

doesnt that only work when starting from a shell? (or particularly bash?)
i usually start cygwin programs like normal windows programs (from a .bat
file, or direct invocation -- double click, etc).

about order:

the order is actually quite interesting.  can anyone explain how nt checks?
or are there any other suggestions?

about volunteering:

i was actually willing to write this myself, being that it is so simple...


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etoffi


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