From: Bill Stewart <bstewart@iname.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to query the value of %SystemDrive% in an empty environment?
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 17:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANV9t=TbkEo61+hd4VYce1679UDA5j9KwM_8JgsEQsOev_TNrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190806162535.GT11632@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 10:25 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable#Windows claims that
> "The %SystemDrive% variable is a special system-wide environment
> variable found on Windows NT and its derivatives. Its value is the drive
> upon which the system directory was placed."
That may be correct - I seem to remember in the past that they could
differ. My recollection may be incorrect.
Bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-06 17:08 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
2019-08-06 16:10 ` Bill Stewart
2019-08-06 16:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-08-06 17:08 ` Bill Stewart [this message]
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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