GETENV(3)               DOMAIN/IX BSD4.2                GETENV(3)



NAME
     getenv - get the value of an environment variable

USAGE
     char *getenv(name)
     char *name;


DESCRIPTION
     Getenv searches through the list of environment variables
     for a string of the form:

       name=value

     If it finds an entry, getenv returns a pointer to the null-
     terminated string value.  If it cannot find an entry for
     name, getenv returns the value zero (NULL).

RELATED INFORMATION
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