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Re: Path Seperator



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Yes, but a program that was built to use Win32 would have a ';' in it's path, even if it is run under Cygwin.

Earnie.

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 21:42:15 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Path Seperator
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On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:31:39PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Simply check for the presence of ';' in PATH, if it exists that is the 
>seperator else ':' is the seperator.

You'll never see a ';' separator if you use getenv in cygwin.  And you
won't reliably see a ':' separator if you use a windows function.
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