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Article #276Re: Reading shell variables from a program.
From: Andre John Kostur
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:07
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:07
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In article <1e8tnnINN3bf@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:
>I looked through the documentation at hand (as well as several manpages on
>the unix box here) but I couldn't figure out how to read a shell variable
>from within a program.
Ooops... my last post was useless... what it should say:
char *getenv(char *);
Where you pass in a pointer to a string which contains the name of the
variable, and it returns a pointer to the value of that variable
ie:
char *termtype;
termtype = getenv("TERM");
^
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.gno Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!akostur From: akostur@fraser.sfu.ca (Andre John Kostur) Subject: Re: Reading shell variables from a program. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.020734.3248@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <1e8tnnINN3bf@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:07:34 GMT Lines: 25