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Re: simple enviorment question

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From: Robert C Sanders
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1986 04:40
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In article <483@ur-tut.UUCP> aptr@ur-tut.UUCP writes:
>I have a very simple question to ask about the enviorment in MS/PC-DOS.
>How do you check the value of a parameter in the envoirment? And, is there
>anyway to look at the enviorment as a whole? (i.e. prenv in UN*X)
>
>Thanks

I don't know about individual variables, outside of writing a simple assembly
or C program to fetch it using a DOS 21h interupt function.  But you can always
see all of your environment variables at any DOS prompt by using the command
"set" without any arguments.
-- 
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Purdue University 		...!ihnp4!pur-ee!pc-ecn!sandersr

Let's make like a BSD process, and go FORK-OFF !!	-- bob
(and "make" a few children while we're at it ...)
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From: sandersr@ecn-pc.UUCP (Robert C Sanders)
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Subject: Re: simple enviorment question
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Date: Thu, 10-Jul-86 00:40:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 10 00:40:09 1986
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