From: Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de>
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Subject: Re: getenv() question
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 12:33:34 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii schrieb:
> 
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Waldemar Schultz wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, and is there also a possibility of obtaining the
> > available free space in environ (allocated size of environ)?
> 
> I'm not sure what are you asking, exactly.  There's space that is
> allocate for `environ', which is an array of pointers, and there's
> additional space allocated for each "VAR=VALUE" string.  Which one of
> these are you interested in?

In simple words: can I write a (DOS) C-program that tells me
how much environment space is free/occupied ?

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