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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
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<sect1 id="using-cygwinenv"><title>The <envar>CYGWIN</envar> environment
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variable</title>
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<sect2 id="cygwinenv-implemented-options">
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<title>Implemented options</title>
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<para>The <envar>CYGWIN</envar> environment variable is used to configure
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many global settings for the Cygwin runtime system. It contains the options
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listed below, separated by blank characters. Many options can be turned off
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by prefixing with <literal>no</literal>.</para>
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<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)export</envar> - If set, the final values of these
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settings are re-exported to the environment as <envar>CYGWIN</envar> again.
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Defaults to off.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<envar>error_start:Win32filepath</envar> - if set, runs
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<filename>Win32filepath</filename> when cygwin encounters a fatal error,
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which is useful for debugging. <filename>Win32filepath</filename> is
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usually set to the path to <command>gdb</command> or
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<command>dumper</command>, for example
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<filename>C:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe</filename>.
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There is no default set.
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</para>
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<para>
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The filename of the executing program and it's Windows process id are appended
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to the command as arguments.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)glob[:ignorecase]</envar> - if set, command line arguments
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containing UNIX-style file wildcard characters (brackets, braces, question mark,
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asterisk, escaped with \) are expanded into lists of files that match
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those wildcards.
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This is applicable only to programs run from non-Cygwin programs such as a CMD prompt.
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That means that this setting does not affect globbing operations for shells such as
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bash, sh, tcsh, zsh, etc.
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Default is set.</para>
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<para>This option also accepts an optional <literal>[no]ignorecase</literal> modifer.
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If supplied, wildcard matching is case insensitive. The default is <literal>noignorecase</literal></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)pipe_byte</envar> - causes Cygwin to open pipes in byte mode rather than
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message mode.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>proc_retry:n</envar> - causes <function>fork()</function> and
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<function>exec*()</function> to retry n times when a child process fails
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due to certain windows-specific errors. These errors usually occur when
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processes are being started while a user is logging off.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)reset_com</envar> - if set, serial ports are reset
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to 9600-8-N-1 with no flow control when used. This is done at open
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time and when handles are inherited. Defaults to set.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)wincmdln</envar> - if set, the windows complete command
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line (truncated to ~32K) will be passed on any processes that it creates
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in addition to the normal UNIX argv list. Defaults to not set.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>winsymlinks:{lnk,native,nativestrict,sys}</envar></para>
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<itemizedlist mark="square">
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<listitem>
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<para>If set to just
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<literal>winsymlinks</literal> or <literal>winsymlinks:lnk</literal>,
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Cygwin creates symlinks as Windows shortcuts with a special header and
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the R/O attribute set.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>If set to <literal>winsymlinks:native</literal> or
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<literal>winsymlinks:nativestrict</literal>, Cygwin creates symlinks as
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native Windows symlinks on filesystems and OS versions supporting them.</para>
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<para>The difference between <literal>winsymlinks:native</literal> and
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<literal>winsymlinks:nativestrict</literal> is this: If the filesystem
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supports native symlinks and Cygwin fails to create a native symlink for
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some reason, it will fall back to creating Cygwin default symlinks
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with <literal>winsymlinks:native</literal>, while with
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<literal>winsymlinks:nativestrict</literal> the <literal>symlink(2)</literal>
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system call will immediately fail.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>If set to <literal>winsymlinks:sys</literal>, Cygwin creates symlinks as
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plain files with the <literal>system</literal> attribute, containing a magic
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cookie followed by the path to which the link points.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Note that this setting has no effect where Cygwin knows that the
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filesystem only supports a creating symlinks in a specific way.</para>
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<para>For more information on symbolic links, see
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<xref linkend="pathnames-symlinks"></xref>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>disable_pcon</envar> - if set, pseudo console support in
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pty will be disabled. This is for programs which do not work properly
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under pty with pseudo console enabled. Defaults to not set.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="cygwinenv-removed-options">
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<title>Obsolete options</title>
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<para>
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Certain CYGWIN options available in past releases have been removed over
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time for one reason or another. These obsolete options are listed
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below.</para>
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<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)binmode</envar> - This option has been removed because
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all file opens default to binary mode, unless the open mode has been specified
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explicitly in the open(2) call.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)detect_bloda</envar> - No case of a BLODA found by this
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option has been reported in years.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)dosfilewarning</envar> - This option had been disabled for
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quite some time and nobody missed it.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>check_case</envar> - This option has been removed in favor of
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real case sensitivity and the per-mount option "posix=[0|1]". For more
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information, read the documentation in <xref linkend="mount-table"></xref> and
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<xref linkend="pathnames-casesensitive"></xref>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>codepage:[ansi|oem]</envar> - This option controlled
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which character set is used for file and console operations. Since Cygwin
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is now doing all character conversion by itself, depending on the
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application call to the <function>setlocale()</function> function, and in
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turn by the setting of the environment variables <envar>$LANG</envar>,
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<envar>$LC_ALL</envar>, or <envar>$LC_CTYPE</envar>, this setting
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became superfluous.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)envcache</envar> - Originally, <envar>envcache</envar>
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controlled caching of environment variable conversion between Win32 and
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POSIX. The default setting works fine, the option was just useless.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>forkchunk:[intval]</envar> - This option allowed to influence
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the <function>fork()</function> function in the way the memory of the
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parent process gets copied to the child process. This functionality was
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only useful for Windows 95/98/Me.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)ntea</envar> - This option has been removed since it
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only fakes security which is considered dangerous and useless. It also
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created an uncontrollably large file on FAT and was entirely useless
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on FAT32.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)ntsec</envar> - This option has been removed in favor of
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the per-mount option "acl"/"noacl". For more information, read the
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documentation in <xref linkend="mount-table"></xref>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)server</envar> - Originally this option had to be
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enabled on the client side to use features only available when running
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<command>cygserver</command>. This option has been removed because Cygwin now
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always tries to contact cygserver if a function is called which requires
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cygserver being available. For more information, read the documentation
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in <xref linkend="using-cygserver"></xref>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)smbntsec</envar> - This option has been removed in favor of
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the per-mount option "acl"/"noacl". For more information, read the
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documentation in <xref linkend="mount-table"></xref>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)strip_title</envar> - Removed because setting the Window title
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can be controlled by the application via Escape sequences.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)title</envar> - Removed because setting the Window title
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can be controlled by the application via Escape sequences.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)transparent_exe</envar> - This option has been removed
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because the behaviour it switched on is now the standard behaviour in
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Cygwin.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)traverse</envar> - This option has been removed because
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traverse checking is not quite correctly implemented by Microsoft and
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it's behaviour has been getting worse with each new OS version. This
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complicates its usage so the option has been removed for now.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)tty</envar> - If set, Cygwin enabled extra support
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(i.e., termios) for UNIX-like ttys in the Windows console. This option
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has been removed because it can be easily replaced by using a terminal
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like <command>mintty</command>, and it does not work well with some
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Windows programs.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><envar>(no)upcaseenv</envar> - This option could be used to convert
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all environment variables to uppercase. This was the default behavior in
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older releases of Cygwin. Since keeping the case of environment variables
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intact is POSIXly correct, Cygwin now does not change the case
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of environment variables, except for a restricted set to maintain minimal
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backward compatibility. The current list of always uppercased variables is:
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</para>
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<screen>
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COMMONPROGRAMFILES
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COMSPEC
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PATH
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SYSTEMDRIVE
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SYSTEMROOT
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TEMP
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TMP
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WINDIR
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</screen>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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