Marc Tompkins wrote: > In W2K and XP (not sure about NT), changes to environment variables made via > the Control Panel will affect any NEW environments instantiated from the > moment you click OK in the Environment Variables dialog.
... > Something to be aware of, though - if CMD is being started by some other > process, it may inherit a 'stale' environment. *That's* why it is. For years I've launched my command shells from one of various shortcut-key utils and I *never* tumbled to the fact that that meant my cmd shell was running inside that util's process and so didn't inherit env var changes. Thanks so much. I have used Launchy, as a matter of fact, but for some reason it never really clicked for me -- maybe I use a small enough range of programs normally -- so I ended up uninstalling it. I agree it did what it did very well, though. TJG _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
