From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-08-15T01:57:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting Windows Environment Variables

On 8/14/06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
> ENV cannot be assigned too.

>> ENV["PATH"]
=> "C:\\Ruby\\bin;..."
>> ENV["PATH"] += ";C:\\tmp"
=> "C:\\Ruby\\bin;...;C:\\tmp"
>> system("cmd")
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\home>PATH
PATH=C:\Ruby\bin;...;C:\tmp

The environment CAN be assigned to. What you can't do is propagate it
upwards. Any processes you spawn from your Ruby application will use
your new environment table, but you can't call a Ruby application to
set your environment in its parent.

-austin
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