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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Iconitis
Message-ID: <10063@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Apr 89 21:25:09 GMT
References: <1930@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <11555@lanl.gov> <17376@cisunx.UUCP> <28558@apple.Apple.COM> <7898@pyr.gatech.EDU> <28679@apple.Apple.COM> <7910@pyr.gatech.EDU> <2132@pur-phy> <1752@skinner.nprdc.arpa> <28836@apple.Apple.COM> <10040@smoke.BRL.MIL> <29126@apple.
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <29126@apple.Apple.COM> austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin) writes:
>How about environment variables?  I have seen *MANY* cases where the
>environment variables get changed, and never restored.

Mind telling us how this could happen?  A child process can't change
its parent's environment variables.

>Considering that the HIG was put together by experts in the field of user
>interfaces, it is the best overall guideline for graphics interfaces.

Cough, cough.