From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Remaining enviroment..
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:01:53 +0000
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DongJun Kim wrote:
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>   I want to remain my enviroment if my program terminated or not.
> I used putenv( "MYPROG=C:/LANG/MYPROG.CFG" ) in my program.
> 
>   But after terminated, it is not in enviroment variables.
> ( I checked it by typing "SET" )

This is not possible under MS-DOS, nor is it possible under the majority
of filesystems.  In most cases, a process cannot permanently modify the
environment of its parent shell.

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