Re: parentheses in environment variable name

2013-05-09 Thread BJ Quinn
> env - "CommonProgramFiles(x86)"="...whatever" /bin/bash.exe (or another > program...) >will set the name with parens in the environment... Exactly one million thanks. That did it! -BJ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Do

Re: parentheses in environment variable name

2013-05-08 Thread Linda Walsh
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 j

parentheses in environment variable name

2013-05-08 Thread BJ Quinn
I have the problem described here - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3735922/issue-with-oledbconnection-open-when-running-as-a-service Basically, I've installed cygwin plus openssh for the purpose of remotely logging into my windows machine from a linux machine over ssh to run an executable o