Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 93 10:23:24 -0400
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To:	swt AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Some problems with go32

> 2. I have been unable to pass the environment setting on to a spawned
>    process. I have used putenv and this works locally as a call to
>    getenv will verify. 
>
> 3. system is the only call which will start a new process. It would be
>    nice if DJGPP had spawn* functions the same as thos of the emx
>    port. Perhaps this would fix the environment problem.

This is a common complaint about go32.  Indeed, you can't pass
environment variables.  The situation may be solved in 1.11, as direct
access to the DOS calls will be available, but we don't know how
they'll interact with a live go32 still loaded (currently, system()
disables go32 for the duration).

DJ

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