filePro / environment variables / putenv

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jean-Pierre A. Radley (Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:14:20 -0500):

> Ken Brody propounded (on Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:36:51AM -0500):
> | Let me clarify something about filePro's use of environment/config
> | variables and the PUTENV statement.
[...]
> You're saying that it will set the value of a parameter in the
> environment of the running program, providing that that parameter was
> not already set?

Well, it will set the value of the variable in the environment of the
current process, and any child process started thereafter, regardless
of whether or not filePro has used that value to set any parameters.

However, if that environment/config variable is something which is
used by filePro, but filePro has not yet had reason to access that
variable, then filePro will see (and therefore use) the new value
when it does happen upon a reason to look at it.

In other words:  yes, basically what you said.

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