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in thread Windows environment variable not set if calling from a perl program

That is not doing what the OP is expecting; and could cause mysterious problems.

Rather than simply modifying the current session's environment; it makes persistent changes to the system registry. Which is fine if that is the intent; but dangerous if not.

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