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Article #2446Re: How do you get enviroment variables?
From: Antti Juustila
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 10:02
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 10:02
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In article <1993Jan3.194240.11140@exucom.com> Bob Willer, bobw@exucom.com writes: >How do you get the enviroment variables that are used by the system >with the SET command ie. in the autoexec.bat file ? > >Bob Willer I think it was getenv. Use putenv to change the environment variable. I remember that there was some discussion somewhere, that the putenv does not change the DOS environment, only the copy of it which WINDOWS uses. I'm not sure about this, though. Antti ?7 x U ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Antti Juustila | eMail: antti@rieska.oulu.fi Dept. of Information Processing Science | Univ.fax: +358-81-553 1890 University of Oulu |__Phone:_+358-81-553_1927____ Linnanmaa | This mail is printed on SF-90570 Oulu, Finland, Europe____________|____100% recycled electrons__ u Enter ~: complex to include; merge terminated. include; merge terminated. B??' / C ? 8<ft g ik j (?????FG(? -:LaserWriter (
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