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From: einstein@cs.mcgill.ca (Michael CHOWET)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Change ENV.
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.180244.1410@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 16 Jan 91 18:02:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jan16.053720.12146@csusac.csus.edu> 
laffeyt@athena.ecs.csus.edu (Tom Laffey) writes:

>There is a fairly complete article about DOS environments in a recent PC mag

  It isn't as recent as you might think. I remeber having come across it in
one of the winter '90 issues. My boss pointed it out for me, and I read it
over, and coded the program

>they include a program called FINDENV.PAS that shows how to
>get access to the "master", or root, copy of the environment. 

  I coded the example, and it does indeed use the method that's been 
mentioned here, namely that of tracing back PSPs. If anyone wants it, 
I can e-mail it (provided I can find it, first... :-)


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