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Re: Passing $home to other prog's


Chris Green <grapeape@scott.net> wrote:

> I believe that since ncftp doesn't check the enviroments of Bash but
> instead checks the win32 style variables.  

They are one and the same mechanism.  For example:

	bash$ export FOO=bar
	bash$ cmd.exe
	c:\>echo %FOO%
	bar

	c:\>exit
	bash$ unset FOO
	bash$ cmd.exe
	c:\>echo %FOO%
	%FOO%

	c:\>
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