From:	jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter)
Subject:	Re: Sorting environment
11 Apr 1997 21:26:30 -0700 :
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Original-To:	Ken Estes <estes AT smarts DOT com>
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Ken Estes wrote:

>  To ensure that these simple conditions are met the environment must
> be sorted or then environment will enter an inconsistent state as a
> result of OS interfaces.  This means that the quotation from the
> manual is correct:
> 
> >   To do so, the application must explicitly create the =X environment
> >   variable strings, get them into alphabetical order (because
> >   Windows NT and Windows 95 use a sorted environment), and then put
> >   them into the environment block specified by
> 
> The application MUST get them into alphabetical order.

Yes, I agree that it must, and spawn.cc must be fixed to do so.
Nonetheless, this parenthetical comment, which is not to be found
elsewhere that I know of, does not constitute proper documentation
by any professional standard.

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