[Coco] OS-9 environment variables?

[Allen Huffman]

Non-6809 OS-9 versions do have environment variable space.

It would be trivial to write a getenv/setenv library... How soon would  
you need it?

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On Apr 15, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:

> At 10:37 PM 4/14/2009, you wrote:
>> On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:
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>>> 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?
>>
>> There is a DATA MODULE type, where the body of the module can be
>> linked to from multiple processes, then each gets a pointer and  
>> access
>> to the body area and can read/write that data. That is the OS-9
>> mechanism for data sharing.
>>
>> You can fix the CRC and save the module out, load it on reboot, and
>> the variables would be back.
>>
>> I should write some code for that. (Semaphores, I am not sure of,
>> under OS-9/6809.)
>>
>> Boisy, you know?
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> I think OS-9 should have had some SetEnv and GetEnv routines a long  
> time ago.  One of the seed modules that are still there after you  
> hit reset could just open up some static space, just enough to not  
> hurt the os9boot size issue but to allow 4 to 8 variables to be set  
> by nickname and retreived the same.  I guess this would involve  
> adding 2 new system calls?
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