set Environment variables

[Günther Rühmann]

Hi.

I´d like to get and set an environment variable with access 2000 vba. The
variable must also be referenced / seen by other processes than the one that
Access runs with.

Can anyone help me ?

Thanks
Guenther

 

[Karl E. Peterson]

I´d like to get and set an environment variable with access 2000 vba. The
variable must also be referenced / seen by other processes than the one that
Access runs with.

You can't propogate e-vars to running processes. They each inherit a copy of the
environment block from their parent process at startup.

Sorry... Karl

 

[Günther Rühmann]

Thank you.
Best regards
Guenther

You can't propogate e-vars to running processes. They each inherit a copy of the
environment block from their parent process at startup.

Sorry... Karl

 

[Dootje]

You can't propogate e-vars to running processes. They each inherit a copy of the
environment block from their parent process at startup.

Sorry... Karl

Excuse my newbie remark, but I'm hoping to learn something from this: Aren't
at least _some_ environment variables stored in the Registry? In that case,
they could be accessed for reading and writing. Or is an environment
variable a parameter that is explicitly _not_ in the registry, but entirely
volatile?

Dootje
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[Karl E. Peterson]

Excuse my newbie remark, but I'm hoping to learn something from this:
Aren't at least _some_ environment variables stored in the Registry?
In that case, they could be accessed for reading and writing. Or is
an environment variable a parameter that is explicitly _not_ in the
registry, but entirely volatile?

I've never looked, but it certainly makes sense that they're stored there, and read
by Windows at startup/login. That doesn't help in the immediate case, though, as
environment blocks are inherited from parent processes as new processes are spawned.

Later... Karl