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Trouble setting up variables in win 2000
"* SFSetup does not correctly set up environment variables on Win2000/NT. This is because these platforms restrict access to autoexec.bat - it needs to be done using the GUI. You need to set the
HOME variable to point to your SSH installation and PATH to point to SSH also."
I'm not experienced in writing HOME and PATH. Please tell me exactly what to write in the files. (for future releases, you could do this as a part of the program)
Thanks for a good initiative. I'm sure this programme will save time for a great lot of people.
Regards,
Jesper Rnn
Hi Jesper.
You need to add these lines, assuming that SSH is installed in c:\ssh (just changed the paths if this isn't the case)
SET HOME=c:\ssh
SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\ssh
Yes, I will put this information in the next release.
I was able to go find c:\autoexec.bat and make it unhidden by right-clicking and looking at the properties. Then run the setup and everything is kosher. For kicks, I went in and made it hidden again.
This assumes you're the administrator and have explorer set up to see all files.
/will
Making it set the HOME variable is going to be disrupting to me since I use MKS toolkit and HOME actually points to a directory where all my settings are stored (ie .emacs profile.ksh, etc.), is there some other environmental variable you can use?
I use the GIMP (an open source GNU image manipulation program) that uses HOME for its own use. When I tried to install WinCVS it broke my GIMP installation.
However, that's probably a WinCVS problem, so I'll try letting them know too.
jfe1.
If I could get a hold of anyone for the project I'd fix the error for win2000. The registry settings for HKEY_CURRENT_USER should be modified not autoexec.bat file. HOME should be set to %USERPROFILE% for win2000 platforms which doesn't conflict with MKS or other utilities that use this variable.
Use the control panel System utility as a work around for setting the values.