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From: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Mr H Boothroyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ENV.COM and the management of MSDOS environments
Keywords: MSDOS, environment
Message-ID: <627@sol.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Jun 88 16:37:23 GMT
Reply-To: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Mr H Boothroyd)
Organization: Warwick University, UK
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I recently circulated ENV.COM with the syntax  env [pad|unpad] .

Of course you shouldn't use it
if you or any programme in your system produces environment variables
with names `ENV01' ... `ENV99' .

However, I discovered today that you shouldn't use it
if you or any programme in your system produces environment variables
with names  ***ending*** in `ENV01' ... `ENV99' .

I haven't time to refine the string search immediately,
so I can't include a revision.

The risk is probably slight, but I think you should know.