Setting enviroment variable

[Christian Bahn]

Hallo,

is it posible in power basic to set a enviroment variable so that i can use the enviroment variable when the programm has finished.
I need this for DOS.
I wanne make a programm that writes information in a enviroment variable and a batch file checks the enviroment variable !

Sorry about my English

Thanks
Christian

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[Mel Bishop]

Check out ENVIRON$ in the help file.
I don't know if you can set the environment with this but you
read it and write the results to a .TXT file.



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[Christian Bahn]

This works only for the child prozess. That means the changes are only for the time when the programm runs. after the programms end, the changes oder the new enviroment variables are deletet or unchanged.


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[Tom Hanlin]

It's possible but, you'll need to do some research. See the ENVIRON.FAQ file
in your PB/DOS FAQ directory.


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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Amos Vryhof]

Optionally, you could skip using the batch file (unless it's
Autoexec.bat) and use PowerBASIC entirely.

That is of course to be determined by you. I have seen
utilities that modify the master copy of the environment and I
used to have a book that mentioned how to do so in QBasic calles
MS-DOS Batch Files Inside and Out. I have since lost the book.


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Amos
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[Christian Bahn]

I get in the next minutes, hours, days a programm that copies the child environment over the master environment.
That is not the way that Iám looking for. Im looking for a way do change the master environment in a Basic Programm.

Christian

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