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In article <1992Sep1.194508.10559@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> sap@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Stephan A. Puga) writes:
>If an environment variable is set before a program is run and the
>program makes use of the system(...) command, how can I use the
>environment variable in the system command?  I am writing a program
>to be used on a network and there is a variable "username" set
>before the program is run (this variable by the way is very
>important to how WordPerfect 5.1 runs on the network), my program
>invokes WP51 and tries to pass it the username variable, but it
>doesn't work!  Is there no way I can get the new "local" command
>shell to use the same "old" command shell's variables?

Well, first off, you need to get the environment variable into a program
variable. (I do not know how to do this in C, but getenv() looks like
it would be the correct choice under Turbo C/Borland C)

Then, concatonate the program variable (say "john") so that your
system command will look like: system(syscmd);
where syscmd="d:\wp51dir\wp.exe john ..." or something similar...

I have done something similar to this a while back while writing
a login program and it's utilities for my pc in Turbo Pascal.

hope this helps,


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