On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:52:24PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:30:36PM -0500, Ron Newman wrote: > > Unix folks are used to these limitations on how you can use > > environment variables. Do things work the same way in Windows? > > It's quite some years since I last used Doze, but I think it works the > same way. Except that there's ways around it. I once wrote a DOS > program - in C - which altered its parent shell's environment by delving > around in the PSP. DOS batch files (.bat files) are treated like > sourced scripts IIRC.
When Windows programs want to change the environment, they simply change your settings and make you reboot. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
