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From: mikej@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: turbo 5.0 dos stuff
Keywords: environment variables
Message-ID: <5104@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Date: 22 Nov 89 23:56:32 GMT
References: <10499@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: mikej@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael Jacobs)
Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
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In article <10499@xanth.cs.odu.edu> wayne@cs.odu.edu (C Wayne Huling) writes:
>1) How can I use DOS environment variables in a pascal program.  In particular
>  I want to put the server program in one directory and the client programs
>  in another.  How can I use the dos file varialbe in pascal.

Use the GetEnv function (dos unit).

writeln ('environment for whatever is ', GetEnv(whatever));
											   ^
							a string, the environment variable


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