From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: passing variable to calling .bat file
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:28:21 +0100
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Florian Sukup wrote:
[snip]
> I want to pass values from the C-program to variables in the calling script
> such that I can work with them after I called this .exe.
> 
> setenv() did not work at the test I did, I tried work arounds but no
> success.
[snip]

setenv() cannot modify the environment of the parent program. You can only
modify the environment of the current program and any subsequent child
programs.

Regards,

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]