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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Iconitis
Message-ID: <29141@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 89 20:44:18 GMT
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In article <29126@apple.Apple.COM> austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes:
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>How about environment variables?  I have seen *MANY* cases where the
>environment variables get changed, and never restored.

That's rather odd, as you can't change environment variables from a
unix command or shell script. The spawned process only sees a copy of
the environment. Are you sure it wasn't MSDOS?

				Peter Desnoyers