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Re: getenv() and Windows

• Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET> Apr 21, 2000
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> Poster:       Mike Hurley <mike_hurley_2 at YAHOO.COM>
> Subject:      getenv() and Windows
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> 1) Is getenv() case-sensative?
  Not case sensitive.

> 2) Everybody that has Windows 95+, when you type "set"
> at a DOS-prompt, do you have this line shown:
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> windir=DRIVE:\WINDOWS_DIRECTORY    ?
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> I want to know if that is default on all systems or if
> it depends on what Windows version you use.

    Check for both. windir and winbootdir.  I recently read from
a very old PC Magazine that this is default.  They even supplied
a fancy batch file that detects if windows is currently running.
:)

> Mike Hurley
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        Lucius L. Hilley III
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