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On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 22:00:33 -0500, Zachary Ware
<zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Artur Bercik <vbubbly21@gmail.com> wrote:
>> could you please elaborate 'setx <...>'?
>
>From a Command Prompt, do 'help setx' for details on how to use setx.

	Really? <G>

C:\Users\Wulfraed\Documents>help setx
This command is not supported by the help utility.  Try "setx /?".

	OTOH: I didn't know about this command before -- and setting user level
environment variables on Win7 wasn't working for me...
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