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Re: permanent setenv? [message #50901 is a reply to message #50900]

Wed, 25 October 2006 02:17

Maarten[1]
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Registered: November 2005

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Wox wrote:

> Is there a way of adding an environment variable, like SETENV does,
> but then permanent?
>
> For windows one could make a .reg file and spawn regedit, adding
> something to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment".
>
> For Linux one could add an "export" line to .bashrc or .profile or ...
>
> One could try doing this for all the available OS's. Isn't there a
> more generic/uniform way of doing this? (Maybe
> "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment" is ok for WinXP, but is it for 2000?
> Maybe you are using another shell on linux, so the 'export' line
> should be added to .kshrc,...)

Forget the environment, not portable anyway. Write your info into a
simple text file, and read that. On Unix a .myapprc file in the users
home will do, for Windows you have to do something else. Leave the
environment to the user, do not mess with it.

Maarten

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