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On Sep 24 07:03, John Emmas wrote:
> Regarding my problem (extra entries being added to my path when I run a
> program under X11) I've tracked the problem down a bit further and I've
> realised that it isn't a problem with getenv().  In actual fact, the problem
> seems to be caused by startxwin.bat and xterm, which both seem to be
> contributing extra entries to my PATH..
>
> If I edit startxwin.bat to remove the line that modifies PATH - and to
> comment out the call to xterm, the problem goes away.  However, if I launch
> an xterm (which is desirable) it mysteriously seems to acquire some extra
> PATH entries from somewhere.
>
> Can anyone suggest where they might be coming from?

Maybe you should ask the question on the cygwin-xfree list.


Corinna

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