[fpc-devel] enumerating environment variables

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Release date for 2.0 ?

Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Vincent Snijders wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>Is it true that in fpc 2.0 the dos unit will be considered obsolete, and 
>>people are advised to use for example the sysutils unit?
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>It is true.
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>>If true, how can I enumerate the environment variables like I do with 
>>the dos unit using EnvCount and EnvStr from the dos unit.
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>You currently can not. Most platforms have the envp() pointer available, but
>this is of course not very user friendly. I have added the
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>Function EnvironmentVariableCount() : Integer;
>Function GetEnvironmentString(Index : Integer) : String;
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>functions to sysutils. (still needs committing, should be there shortly)
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>Michael.
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