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From: turbo@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Chris Turbeville)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Setting environment from inside a pg.
Summary: putenv
Keywords: C, environment, DOS
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.220754.22616@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 90 22:07:54 GMT
References: <Nov.25.00.58.11.1990.9288@galaxy.rutgers.edu> <9ooaT1w163w@valnet>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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Functions like putenv (getenv, etc...) are available for most all
compilers but they do not set the parents environment just the programs.
I could be off base for some compilers but I know MSC sets only its COPY
of the environment not its parents.
Chris