Passing data between filepro tasks

[Kenneth Brody]

On 6/18/2011 9:44 AM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>>  From Ken’s reply, I gather putenv and getenv will not work from daugher
>> task to mother task.
>>
>> Del
>
>       That's my understanding of getenv's and putenvs.   All of the env
> variables in the daughter's workspace die when the daughter task ends.
> The daughter can read any env variables that were set in the mother's
> environmental workspace, but the daughter can't modify any of them.

Not quite.  The child can't read _anything_ from the parent's environment. 
Rather, the child gets a copy of the parent's environment at startup, which 
is can read and modify as it sees fit.

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Kenneth Brody