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Revision as of 15:28, 27 October 2009
Purpose
Function to get environment information
Syntax
GETENV(<expC>)
See Also
ACCESS(), ADDBS(), GETGID(), GETLOG(), GETPID(), GETUID(), HOME(), Printing, PUTENV(), PUTLOG()
Description
The GETENV() function returns the value of the environment variable <expC>. Its main purpose is to pass information into Recital (e.g. from DCL command procedures, or UNIX/Linux shell scripts). In UNIX, Linux and Windows it returns the value of an environment variable. In OpenVMS, it returns the value of a DCL symbol.
Example
? getenv("APP_FILE") /usr/recital/patrons.dbf
Products
Recital Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer
