Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 20:53:24 EST From: ronis AT onsager DOT chem DOT mcgill DOT ca (David Ronis) To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: environment and system calls I want to communicate with a subprocess that I spawn using the system command. I tried to do this by setting some environment variables using setenv(). As far as the parent program is concerned, the environment variables are set; however, the child doesn't seem to inherit the modified environment. This probably is because the pararent is working on a protected mode copy of the environment table Any obvious fix? Thanks in advance. David Ronis