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Re: Passing $home to other prog's
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Passing $home to other prog's
- From: franl at world dot std dot omit-this dot com (Francis Litterio)
- Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 17:37:48 GMT
- Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
- References: <3.0.32.19970528225603.00911740@scott.net>
Chris Green <grapeape@scott.net> wrote:
> I believe that since ncftp doesn't check the enviroments of Bash but
> instead checks the win32 style variables.
They are one and the same mechanism. For example:
bash$ 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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