On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 07:32:01AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Yes, but a program that was built to use Win32 would have a ';' in it's
>path, even if it is run under Cygwin.
If you are using normal 'gcc' (without the -mno-cygwin option) to build
your program, you can't reliably check the environme
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 21:42:15 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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
Simply check for the presence of ';' in PATH, if it exists that is the
seperator else ':' is the seperator.
Of course Win32 environment typically will not return the value of PATH
as the lookup for environment variable is case sensitive and the
variable name is Path instead.
Earnie.
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