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From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>
Subject: Re: Dos Environment varables
Date: 1999/05/25
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Jeffrey D. Cherry <jdcherry@utech.net> a �crit dans le message :
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> Al,
>
> The GNAT OS_Lib route is a great way to get environment variables when
> you want to port your application accross different platforms.  If you
> are going to stay with Windows, then using the Win32 API is a good
> "portability" alternative, again the condition being that you stay
> within the Windows family (95/98/NT).  Here is a function that I've used
> with the OA compiler.  I've used it on Windows 95, 98, and NT without
> any problems.  Hope it helps.

Yes and the best solution could be POSIX. It is compiler and platforms
independant.

Look at Florist for a UNIX implementation and under my homepage for
a partial (yet very usefull) POSIX for Win32.

Pascal.

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