X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Cesar Rabak Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: msdos / djgpp exporting env vars Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 22:04:57 -0300 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3C8419B9.697CDC90@uol.com.br> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 200-221-14-196.dsl-sp.uol.com.br (200.221.14.196) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1015290389 11326375 200.221.14.196 (16 [39218]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,es,en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Amber N. Stange" wrote: [snipped] > > Now of course when this program terminates the variable for user is not > going to still be set. If anyone understands what I am talking about... I > am wanting a way other than possibly reading a cfg file to set this and have > it become an environmental variable at least until the PC has been restarted > or the variable has been changed. Amber, This questions comes from time to time. The canonical answer is: there is no portable way of doing such a thing in C. In the past it used to be available in the Simtel mirrors some programs which used hacks for manipulating the so called parent environment. You'll need to search for such a program for the specific version of the Operating System you're running. HTH -- Cesar Rabak GNU/Linux User 52247. Get counted: http://counter.li.org/