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To: PMS Witch who wrote (11063)	8/6/2000 5:28:34 PM
From: CatLady	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110642

"We ALL face challenges which are tough to us, but simple to those who know. " Well, I don't know much, but I got a bunch of old books around here. ;-) from an old turbo C manual, putenv prototyped in stdlib.h int putenv(const char *name); putenv("PATH=c:\FOO"); ========= getenv reads the enviroment variables path = getenv("PATH");

To: PMS Witch who wrote (11063)	8/6/2000 8:34:54 PM
From: CatLady	Respond to of 110642

"First, how does one write to the environment table from within a program? It seems easy enough to write to the copy of this table made available to your program(s), but the mother lode seems totally elusive." Duh, I should have re-read your post before replying. What I posted modifies the COPY, not the master environment. There IS something on modifying the master environment in the book Undocumented DOS, but it's not entirely straight forward. More later.....