[PD] [folder_list] for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> I got env vars working on Windows, thanks to  
>> ExpandEnvironmentStrings().
>> I couldn't find an equivalent for GNU libc, Mac OS X, or GNU/Linux.
>> Anyone know of a function like that?
>
> man getenv
> man setenv

Not quite, ExpandEnvironmentStrings() does something different:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ 
sysinfo/base/expandenvironmentstrings.asp

getenv() is the same on Windows, setenv() == _putenv() on Windows

.hc

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