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From: mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner)
Subject: Re: Environment variables
Date: 1996/11/04
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Date: 1996-11-04T00:00:00+00:00
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Larry Kilgallen said:
    > The particular example of
    > "environment variables" does not make sense outside Posix/Unix, so those
    > who have been bitten once by a portability issue should consider future
    > porting requirements as well.

It might be good to consider that environment variables make sense in DOS,
DOS with PharLap extender, DOS with Desqview extender, DOS with Desqview/X
extender, Windows NT, OS/2, VxWorks, and other operating systems. Are there
any operating systems or remote target (embedded) runtime systems that 
do not provide environment variables?