BJ Quinn wrote: > Anyway, at least one suggestion I found was that my problem may be caused by > the CommonProgramFiles(x86) environment variable needing to be set to > 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files'. So, can anyone suggest how to set an > environment variable whose VARIABLE NAME (not just the VALUE) contains > parentheses?!? The standard backslash escape character doesn't appear to > work in this scenario. That, or perhaps I'm on the wrong track altogether. > I'm open to any suggestions. ---- env - "CommonProgramFiles(x86)"="...whatever" /bin/bash.exe (or another program...) will set the name with parens in the environment...
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