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PATH and SystemRoot oddity
- From: Luke Kendall <luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:47:17 +1100 (EST)
- Subject: PATH and SystemRoot oddity
I see that by default PATH includes some entries like
%SystemRoot%/System32
I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the
expected C:\WINDOWS value.
This of course causes problems. Would a backslash-style path work
correctly if it were properly interpolated into the PATH? Is the %
notation special magic for Cygwin to handle DOS-isms?
The case variance may be of interest, in that case.
luke
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