...to set environmental variables for windows you can use regtool... But in that case they get persistent...
...and the simplest equivalent to start is using & to background the command... matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Larry Hall > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:38 PM > To: Jason Joines; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: setting windows environment variables > > > At 04:18 PM 7/20/2004, you wrote: > > I have a Cygwin BASH script which takes user input, uses > ldapsearch, etc., to set a bunch of environment variables. I > can then use these from bash with no problem. I would also > like to make these environment variables available to the > windows command interpreter. > > Is there anyway to do this? > > > Only if the windows command interpreter is a child of the > bash process you > run from. Otherwise, your best bet is to export the variables as some > batch file and run that in the windows command interpreter. > > > > Also, is there a BASH equivalent of the windows cmd > start command that lets you start many processes without > having to wait on each to finish? > > > How about 'cygstart'? > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
