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Re: environment variables on windows [message #30386]

Fri, 26 April 2002 12:45

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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On win2k you set them in the System Properties control panel under the
Advanced tab. On NT4 I would guess it is in the same place but I can't
verify that.

On 9x and ME systems you probably set them in your autoexec.bat file.

-Rick

"Jonathan Joseph" <jj21@cornell.edu> wrote in message
news:3CC9A28E.4029F064@cornell.edu...
>
> Perhaps this is more of a windows question than an IDL question but
> here goes. I want to have certain data files stored in a directory
> that my programs can access. On unix platforms, I can set an
> environment variable with the path to the data directory, then use
> GETENV() to retrieve the directory name from within IDL. It seems
> that IDL's GETENV() works on windows, but where/how do I set the
> environment variables in the first place?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Jonathan

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