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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 20:53:24 EST
From: ronis AT onsager DOT chem DOT mcgill DOT ca (David Ronis)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: environment and system calls

I want to communicate with a subprocess that I spawn using the system 
command.  I tried to do this by setting some environment variables
using setenv().  As far as the parent program is concerned, the 
environment variables are set; however, the child doesn't seem to
inherit the modified environment.  This probably is because the
pararent is working on a protected mode copy of the environment table

Any obvious fix?

Thanks in advance.

David Ronis

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