getting/setting environment variables

Thu, 10 Oct 1996 11:12:18 +0100 (MET)

According to John Michael Black:
> Okay, here's another question.  Is there a standard in Pascal that
> retrieves and/or sets environment variables, like C's getenv()?  If not, I
> suppose I would declare and external procedure just like the others.

I don't know of a de-jure Pascal standard for getenv().
Borland uses the C standard: Function GetEnv ( Index: String ): String;
The "Tools" Unit of BO5 implements Borland's GetEnv by using C's one,

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