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From: mhampson@wpi.wpi.edu (Mark A. Hampson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: MS-DOS Environment Variables
Message-ID: <5679@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 02:23:47 GMT
Organization: WPI Department of Mechanical Engineering
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I am wondering if anyone has tripped across a way to set an MS-DOS
environment variable from within a program that is still in the 
environment table when the program terminates.

The commands in Turbo * will allow you to alter the environment 
variable table, but when they only operate on a copy of the table
which is created when you execute the program and therefore are lost
on termination.

I am trying to store the current directory path name in an environment
variable.  I am willing to approach this two ways:

1)  have a program return the value in such a way that a .BAT file 
    can set it and have it stay in the table 

2)  or to have a program set it (the prefered method).


If anyone has any great ideas on this could you please EMAIL them to me
as I do not read this newsgroup regularly.

Thanks,
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                  Mark A. Hampson  --  mhampson@wpi.wpi.edu