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> From: "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:40:08 GMT
> 
>      char ** environ=_environ;/**** SYSTEM DEFINED ENVIRONMENT POINTER */

What is that line for?  Does the program work without it?

(If you screw up the environment, subprograms might indeed fail to run
in strange ways.)