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(From "The Masked Rat Fink"   "Computing and Informatics Yr4")

Dear Netters (again),

Does anyone out there feel so disposed as to explain to a poor unfortunate
about environment variables?

1    What are they?
2    Where are they stored?
3    What are the standard ones? (I've heard of PATH)
4    How do I use them from C (Sozobon in particular!)
5    How do I pass them to other programs?

I'm learning slowly but surely, but haven't yet come across this information!
May I also say that the technical articles that arrive in my mail box, through
this group are very benificial and that I have learnt much. However the flames
are just getting on my nerves! I seem to remember buying my ST for what it
could do at that exact instance when I handed over my hard earned cash, not
because I expected Atari to issue loads of wonderful add-ons (such as an
'Atari to PC missile :-) but because it was cheap, powerful and most importantly
it had megs of software available at either reasonable or negligable prices
(as well as all that scrummy p.d. and freeware!!).

Thanks in advance,

TMRF (Getting down off soapbox now! :-)

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