From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Sorting environment
12 Apr 1997 17:30:37 -0700
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Jim Balter wrote:
> 
> Ken Estes wrote:
> 
> > All documentaion I have seen requires that NT environment be sorted
> > (more then just one parenthetical comment), thus it is a constraint of
> 
> Cites, please.  The MSVC helpbook info for CreateProcess, for instance,
> does not state that the environment block must be sorted.

Sorry; I take it back.  The MSVC doc has the same comment, buried
in the same remark about =X current directory info.  Not where it
belongs, of course.

Note that cygwin mishandles those too.  It turns =X=foo
into !X=foo, so they don't confuse getenv, but doesn't turn them back
when passing them to CreateProcess.

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