From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: environment variables
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:53:08 +0000
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S2200253 AT nickel DOT laurentian DOT ca wrote:
> 
> How do you determine in C or C++ what the environment variables
> are set to.  I think there is another varible in
> 
> main(int argc, char *argv[], /*something here*/)

There may well be (in fact, I think there is), but it's a nonstandard
way to get the environment.  The standard interface is through the
getenv() and putenv() functions; look them up in the libc docs for more
info.

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