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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ENVIRONMENT settings
Message-ID: <838@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 01:00:40 GMT
References: <10551@swan.ulowell.edu> <76@notrees.ACA.MCC.COM>
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In article <76@notrees.ACA.MCC.COM> unniks@notrees.ACA.MCC.COM (C. Unnikrishnan) writes:
>From article <10551@swan.ulowell.edu>, by tclark@hawk.ulowell.edu (T.C. Clark):
>> 	I'm writing a C program in which I would like to read in
>> 	some of the user's ENVIRONMENT settings (ie. logname, printer)
>here's a portion of the code pulled out from a source file
>main (argc, argv, envp)
>     char **envp;

Wouldn't it be simpler to do just
	extern char *getenv();
	char *LogName = getenv("LOGNAME");
	char *Printer = getenv("PRINTER");
and so on?