dmh@JULIET.CALTECH.EDU (David M Hull) (05/15/86)
[sorry if this is a duplicate message] Hi- Does anyone know how to get at the flinking environment string (like if you don't know what's already there in order to use SHEL_ENVRN)? What, if anything, is usually stored there? Who looks at the environment string (e.g., is there a PATH variable that maybe the silly COMMAND or silly BATCH programs use? (I somehow doubt it)). I tried printing out the contents of memory at _base (which is set up in GEMSTART.O and company). It did not match up with either of the formats given in the CPM-68K documentation (one mentions environment strings, one doesn't --- and then there's the_envir, the system variable). Of course TOS is not, never was and never will be CPM-68K. Maybe I should dig up some MS-DOS documentation? (I realize there are a couple of REGISTERED TRADEMARKS in the above. Please don't shoot.) Also, who do I have to sleep with to get (C) source for a ramdisk (source for my own information, ramdisk because I need it)? Who decided that a C compiler with (effectively (?)) 7-character identifiers was fit to be seen in public (/real/ programmers . . .)? Ok., so I'm culturally deprived -- what's a :-) and how do I keep them away from innocent bystanders? And which is better --- /emphasis/ or *emphasis*? I haven't been so distressed since I didn't know which fork to use . . . -- dmh (It's about the New Genre)