getting/setting environment variables

According to John Michael Black:

Okay, here's another question. Is there a standard in Pascal that retrieves and/or sets environment variables, like C's getenv()? If not, I suppose I would declare and external procedure just like the others.

I don't know of a de-jure Pascal standard for getenv(). Borland uses the C standard: Function GetEnv ( Index: String ): String; The "Tools" Unit of BO5 implements Borland's GetEnv by using C's one, Greetings, Peter e-mail: peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de home address: D\"usseldorfer Str. 35, 45145 Essen, Germany WWW: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~peter/