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From: Al Johnston <sofeise@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: ada/c if - putenv?
Date: 2000/03/07
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> Yes that's it.
> man putenv gives this information:
>
>      the string pointed to by  string
>      becomes part of the environment, so altering the string will

yipe!  that is strange behavior, but it is documented, very
explicitly...
sorry I didn't RT#M here.... That was the problem...  Looks
like using putenv() causes a memory leak as well (successive calls
for same symbol)... Thank for the help.

> I've seen this answered here a few times over the years.

sorry....