By and large, they do. The parent/child process issues are the same.

There a couple Resource Kit utilities that update the "master" environment. Likewise, with the appropriate permissions, you can directly update the Registry entries where the environment values are kept - either system wide or "current user". But this is the equivalent of updating the user's .profile, which some install programs have been known to do.

At 12:30 PM 1/16/2003 -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?
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