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Re: Environment var PATH broken in 1.3.9 - spaces NG


On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:16:07PM -0700, Richard Kandarian wrote:
>The path to MSVC is set in the registry (i.e. Control panel > system > 
>advanced > environment (or however you get there)). To be even more precise 
>tcsh inherits the environment from bash which inherits it from cmd.exe 
>which gets it from the registry somehow.
>
>Sorry I didn't mention that.
>
>If I execute 'tcsh -l' at a cmd.exe prompt the behavior is the same. (I 
>didn't know I could do that! I thought I needed bash to read /etc/profile 
>to get everything setup.)

It still sounds like you have something like a "set path=($PATH)" somewhere.

For the record, there were very few changes made between 1.3.8 and 1.3.9
and none of the changes had anything to do with environment handlin.

cgf

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