I've discovered that if I add a new Environment Variable via the System application of the Control Panel and I have a shortcut to an executable the process does _not_ contain the newly created variable. If I start the process by hand it _does_ contain the newly created variable. The solution: 1) Reboot. 2) Cause the shortcut to be modified. When the shortcut is updated the newly created variable will be contained. I am using WinNT 4 sp4. ===== --- Earnie Boyd: < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com > __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: < http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html > __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: < http://www.egroups.com/group/mingw32/ > Mingw Home: < http://www.mingw.org/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com