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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 15:00:08 -0200
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From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: Remaining enviroment..
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At 19:01 15/12/97 +0000, John M. Aldrich wrote:

>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.
>

John's affirmation is too strong! Although it is not officially documented,
and the tricks are definitively non portable, _there are_ ways of doing that.

In an earlier post of mine in this list (about one and half to two years...)
I posted a pointer to this matter. It is reachable in the C subdirectory of
msdos SimTel sites.
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