ENVIRONMENT settings

C. Unnikrishnan unniks at notrees.ACA.MCC.COM
Fri Dec 9 10:55:50 AEST 1988


>From article <10551 at swan.ulowell.edu>, by tclark at hawk.ulowell.edu (T.C. Clark):
> 
> 	I'm writing a C program in which I would like to read in
> 	some of the user's ENVIRONMENT settings (ie. logname, printer)
> 	Can someone give me an idea on how to read these in and use
> 	them?
here's a portion of the code pulled out from a source file

main (argc, argv, envp)
     register int argc;
     register char **argv;
     char **envp;
{
	/* do something */
 	for (; *envp; envp++) {
	printf("%s\n", *envp);
	}
	/* do whatever with the variables */
}


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