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From: yarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: problem with using system(3S) on 3b1  v3.51
Summary: Stop whacking *envp
Message-ID: <25619@cs.yale.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 90 18:13:54 GMT
References: <203@geocub.greco-prog.fr>
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In article <203@geocub.greco-prog.fr> lath@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Laurent Lathieyre) writes:

>kw: is not an identifier

That message came from sh.  Sh parses its envp, and if it doesn't like the
variable names, it complains and dies.  The fix is to stop munging *envp.
On the Unix PC, *envp is located right after *argv, for ease of munging.

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Norman Yarvin					yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu