Modifying Win2K environment variables

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I'm new to Perl/TK. I'm working on a Win2k system and trying to permanantly change the environment variables. I have tried the command:

sytem ("set HDS_TEAM_HOME = C:\\BATC_APPS\\Team_Flight");

but this seems to only set this during the execution of the script. Is there a way to permanantly set this? Thanks, Rob Morrow rmorrow@ball.com

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Re: Modifying Win2K environment variables by halley (Prior) on Aug 14, 2003 at 19:19 UTC
The portable and preferable way to set an environment variable for the current process, and any children spawned thereafter: `$ENV{HDS_TEAM_HOME} = "C:\\BATC_APPS\\Team_Flight";` [download] On Windows, the shell (CMD.EXE or COMMAND.EXE) does not communicate behind the scenes, as Un*x shells often do. To alter environment variables for unrelated processes, you have to poke values into pseudo-registry keys. Check out CPAN for Win32::TieRegistry and the docs should help. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Modifying Win2K environment variables (example) by tye (Sage) on Aug 14, 2003 at 21:36 UTC
And for some examples of setting environment variables both permanently (in the registry) and in the parent shell at the same time, check out the (updated) CleanPath. (: - tye	[reply]
Re: Modifying Win2K environment variables by particle (Vicar) on Aug 14, 2003 at 19:55 UTC
SuperSearch is your friend: vienv - Edit local environment variables on Win32 SetEnviron.bat ~Particle accelerates	[reply]
Re: Modifying Win2K environment variables by fourmi (Scribe) on Aug 15, 2003 at 13:33 UTC
typo? should be system	[reply]