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Re: JTMAIL and 5.5
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 7 Oct 1997 18:36:30 +0100
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At 11:31 01.10.1997 PST8PDT, Bob wrote:
>We  just upgraded to MPE 5.5 Express2(from 5.0) on the weekend  and
>now JTMAIL(by Jim Wowchuk) is now behaving strangly.
...
>Problem lies in when getting settings from env variables.
>As each getenv is called, char pointers defined from previous getenvs
>are all set to the value of the most recent call to getenv.

I vaguely recall a 5.5 Communicator article regarding getenv() that
discussed a change in getenv() behaviour that is incompatible with
the past but now more consistent with some language standard...

Lars (did I already mention Communicators as worth skimming? ;-)

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