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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: ENVIRONMENT variables
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.221532.29622@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 21 Apr 91 22:15:32 GMT
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How does one manipulate environment variables in Turbo PASCAL 6.0..?

Is there anywhere in the manuals where I can get more information on this?

The reason I ask is because I am writing a patch for a program to a BBS.  
However, the program has a JUMP to SHELL routine which allows the user to 
jump to DOS.  Obviously, the SYSOP doesn't want the users to be able to do
this, so I was wondering if there was a way I could mess with the COMSPEC or
the SHELL= line so that the jump to shell would be disabled.  Then, when the
program is done running, the TP program would reset the COMSPEC or SHELL=.

Can this be done, or is there a simpler way to correct this problem..?

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storm@cs.mcgill.ca         McGill University           It's 11pm, do YOU
Marc Wandschneider         Montreal, CANADA            know what time it is?
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