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From: ljz@fxgrp.UUCP (Lloyd Zusman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Dos Enviroment Space
Message-ID: <115@fxgrp.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 16:21:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 11 16:21:50 1987
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In article <15156@watmath.waterloo.edu> npross@watmath.waterloo.edu (N.P.Ross) writes:

>Could someone out there please tell me how I can find the REAL enviroment
>space, not the copy I get when I start my program ...

Unfortunately, this cannot be done, as the location of a parent processes's
PSP (and therefore its environment) is not available to a child.  This also
applies to the "REAL" environment in the DOS command processor.  Every hack
I've seen to locate this environment is DOS-version-dependent.

I'm almost 100% positive about this, but I'd sure be happy to find out I'm
mistaken!

Lloyd Zusman
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