Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 23:08 EST
From: "Wonkoo Kim, EE, U. of Pittsburgh" <WKIM AT vms DOT cis DOT pitt DOT edu>
Subject: How do I set master dos environ.?
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT EDU

Hi.

First of all, I am sorry that this question is not djgpp-specific.
(PLEASE IGNORE THIS MSG. IF YOU MIND.)

(Q1) I might need to write a C program to set a environmental variable under
msdos, but the env string set by putenv() will not be kept after returning to
dos. How do I set the environmental var in the dos's master(parent) env space? 

(Q2) Some user-interface shell(Windows file manager + Toolbar) automatically
suppy the full path info for a file using backslashes in path string, but some
unix-like programs need '/' instead of '\' in its argument string. Is there a
small utility performing the path string conversion from dos-style to
unix-style? 
(i.e. a possible command form would be "unixpath unix-style-prog path\file",
then unixpath will issue "unix-style-prog path/file". Or through some batch 
file ... relevant to (Q1).)

Many thanks.

Regards,

Wonkoo.