bsrdp@daisy.warwick.ac.uk (Mr H Boothroyd) (06/09/88)
A recent query raised the problem of not being able to preserve big environments for children. The rest of this file is a UUENCODED ARC of a utility, ENV.COM, that I wrote for myself about 6 months ago. ENV.COM is used to add up to 100 dummy variables to fill any unused space in the environment, so that the environment will be copied full-size when an application is called, to delete additional variables from the newly copied environment. ENV.DOC illustrates the use of ENV.COM, and also illustrates how to tackle the related problem that PATH has its results recorded in the environment, APPEND does not. ENV.CMP is source of ENV.COM written as a DEBUG command file. It is needed only if you wish to re-compile ENV.COM. 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