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RE: Win32 NT feature that may cause problems. CORRECTION
- To: Kevin Schnitzius <kevin dot schnitzius at citrix dot com>
- Subject: RE: Win32 NT feature that may cause problems. CORRECTION
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:33:20 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: MinGW at eGroups dot com, cygwin users <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
Thanks, Kevin. I'll restate this problem.
If the shortcut is started from the Desktop there isn't a problem. If the
shortcut is started from the Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar then the problem
exists.
Earnie.
--- Kevin Schnitzius <kevin.schnitzius@citrix.com> wrote:
> How are you invoking the short cut?
>
> I am unable to reproduce this behavior using desktop short cuts...
>
> Kevin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 10:24
> To: MinGW@eGroups.com; cygwin users
> Subject: Win32 NT feature that may cause problems.
>
> I've discovered that if I add a new Environment Variable via
> the System
> application of the Control Panel and I have a shortcut to an
> executable the
> process does _not_ contain the newly created variable. If I
> start the process
> by hand it _does_ contain the newly created variable.
>
> The solution:
>
> 1) Reboot.
> 2) Cause the shortcut to be modified. When the shortcut is
> updated the newly
> created variable will be contained.
>
> I am using WinNT 4 sp4.
>
>
>
> =====
> ---
> Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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