From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-05-26T21:27:36+09:00
Subject: Re: setting environment variables using windows batch file

On 5/26/05, Afaque Ahmad <ahmads_786@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am having problems setting and reading enviroment variables from
> a windows batch file.

Simply put, you can't do this. #exec and #system start new copies of
the command interpreter (cmd.exe) and the environment variables are
set in that environment, which is subordinate to the Ruby
interpreter process.

You'd be better off parsing the BAT file for SET commands. And using ENV.

-austin
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