There are no "types" for environment variables.
There are types for values stored in the registry.
See this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986 and note the
descriptions of REG_SZ and REG_EXPAND_SZ.
The fact that you can do it in RapidEE does not mean it's a built-in
feature of Windows environment variables. It means they have a nice
feature built on top of Windows environment variables, ... but you
can't count on that feature for use from *any* program that deals with
environment variables. You can only count on it when you are setting an
environment variable via RapidEE's user interface.
David C.
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