How to change environment variables within a program?

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From: Peter Wu
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1986 09:52

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Is there a way to change the environment variables (e.g. PATH)
within a program and have it exported to the command shell?

In other words, is there a back pointer to the environment variables of
the parent process that the child can access?

				     peter

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From: peter@gumby.UUCP (Peter Wu)
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Subject: How to change environment variables within a program?
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Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 04:52:27 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  1 04:52:27 1986
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Keywords: environment, pc, pc-dos