>> >> 1. What's the "right" way to add add environment variables into the user >> and system maps? > >Well, that's probably the best you could hope for, if you want system-wide >settings. I'm not aware of any other command-line tool that would set >these. If you only want to set environment variables for Cygwin shells, >you might want to edit /cygwin.bat instead. >
there is a command line tool from the w2k ressource tools named SETX.EXE doing a google search reveals the links to ms homepage. It is supposed to set environment variables for local user and/or local machine from command line. you might give it a try benjamin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/