From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Setting env variables
Date: 17 Dec 1997 08:47:55 GMT
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Firstly if PUTENV only affects the environment within the calling program
why use it? Why not use a variable?

Secondly, maybe someone can decompile the set.com (or whatever it is) that
comes with DOS to see how to modify the parent environment. The SET
command works nicely for this:


set djgpp=c:/foo/bar/blah   ; In Autoexec.bat, gets done at startup

gcc -o foo.exe foo.c     ; This works, ergo the above changed DJGPP not
                         ; just for SET but for the parent DOS session
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