From: huott@pinebush.com (Ed Huott)
Subject: Re: Sorting environment
10 Apr 1997 17:18:20 -0700
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Original-To: Jon Thackray <jont@harlequin.co.uk>
Original-cc: Jim Balter <jqb@netcom.com>, gnu-win32@cygnus.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Apr 1997 12:26:25 -0000."
             <20894.9704101126@dedekind.cam.harlequin.co.uk> 
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In message <20894.9704101126@dedekind.cam.harlequin.co.uk>, Jon Thackray writes
:
>Quoting from the Oct 96 MSDN docs for CreateProcess, near the end of the
>"Remarks" section:
>
>  If the current directory on drive C is \MSVC\MFC, there is an
>  environment variable called =C: whose value is C:\MSVC\MFC. As noted in
>  the previous description of lpEnvironment, such current directory
>  information for a system's drives does not automatically propagate to a
>  new process when the CreateProcess function's lpEnvironment parameter is
>  non-NULL. An application must manually pass the current directory
>  information to the new process. 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
>  lpEnvironment. Typically, they will go at the front of the environment
>  block, due to the previously mentioned environment block sorting.

Wow!  And they call the Unix system arcane!!! :-)

<ED>
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