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Re: Environment variables for DOS programs
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:12:03 +0200
- Subject: Re: Environment variables for DOS programs
- References: <c51j9d$6jp$1@sea.gmane.org>
* levent (2004-04-07 21:03 +0100)
> From my Cygwin terminal, I want to call DOS programs which require
> some environment variables to be set properly (such as the commandline
> utility *link.exe* of Visual Studio) for current session.
>
> Unfortunately, this was not possible by simply setting the variables in
> the shell (I am using tcsh). Link.exe refuses to see the environment
> variables defined in tcsh. Is this the desired behaviour? Is there
> anyway to make the DOS programs see the environment variables in Cygwin
> shells? Or am I making a fundamental mistake in expecting such a behaviour?
Simply export the variable
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