From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to query the value of %SystemDrive% in an empty environment?
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190806155308.GS11632@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV9t=Q4aJDndAeP4P3zKHGF91QRP0F8czqWTUevh+B3nsNVFw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Aug 6 09:47, Bill Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 9:42 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 6 17:20, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
> > > Now what I've failed to find is how to query the value for the "SystemDrive"
> > > environment variable.
> >
> > Just strip it off SYSTEMROOT?
>
> IIRC, that will not give the expected value if Windows is installed on
> a different drive.
How so? SYSTEMDRIVE is the drive SYSTEMROOT is installed on, no?
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-06 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-06 15:20 Michael Haubenwallner
2019-08-06 15:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-06 15:47 ` Bill Stewart
2019-08-06 15:53 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2019-08-06 16:10 ` Bill Stewart
2019-08-06 16:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-06 17:08 ` Bill Stewart
2019-08-07 2:33 ` Brian Inglis
2019-08-07 11:09 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2019-08-07 11:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-07 12:41 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2019-08-07 14:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
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