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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Environment variables
Date: 1996/11/09
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Date: 1996-11-09T00:00:00+00:00
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Dave Wheeler said

"Yes, it'd be nice if there was a standard Ada function that did this for you"

Hmmm! a bit dubious, given there are many systems on which the concept of
environment variable is either missing or is not clear. It seems to me that
Unix-related functions like this are better supplied via the Posix
interface.

But I agree this one is on the edge.