getenv - any solutions?

Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:20:59 +0100 (MET)

According to John Michael Black:
> There's been a lot of getenvs going around here lately. :)  Has anyone
> found a method that works yet?  The last thing posted about it gave this:
> 
> 	Function GetEnv ( Name: __CString__ ): PChar; C;
> 
> GPC does not recognize PChar -- at least ours doesn't.

You must *define* PChar first:

    Type
      PChar = ^Char;

Perhaps you should try that Borland compatible GetEnv Function in
the Tools Unit of BO5.  See

    ftp://kampi.hut.fi/jtv/gnu-pascal/turbo-alpha/bo5.zip

Greetings,

    Peter

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Peter Gerwinski (peter@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de)