[Coco] OS-9 environment variables?

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Wed Apr 15 14:56:34 EDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:30:16PM -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
> Is there a way in OS-9 to store a few bytes or a string from one 
> module and access that data from another module by nickname or some 
> other global handle?

getenv() and setenv() in the cgfx library read/write "environment
variables" from /dd/sys/env.file
> 
> Can the data persist after hitting Reset to reboot OS-9?

Yes.

Willard
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