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In article <322@bnrmtv.UUCP> connery@bnrmtv.UUCP (Glenn Connery) writes:
>> 
>> 
>> Does anyone out there know how to get a pointer to the
>> CURRENT environment in DOS?  What about version dependencies?
>> 
>
>The program segment prefix has the segment address of the environment
>at offset 2C.  If you take this and add offset zero you will be able
>to locate the current environment for THIS program, which is a COPY
>of that for its parent, usually DOS.  It contains a series of strings,
>as displayed by typing SET with no parms, each terminated by a null byte.
>The end of the table is indicated by a trailing NULL (ie. two null bytes
>in a row).
>
>This should be valid for all DOS versions that support the environment.
>-- 
>
>Glenn Connery, Bell Northern Research, Mountain View, CA
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Yes, but for "exit and stay resident" routines, can't that be
an "old" environment?  I need a pointer to the "latest and greatest"
environment.  That is to say the "real" DOS environment.  Can
anyone help?

                       
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