>  Is there a way to set an environment variable in the "master" OS/2
 >environment so all OS/2 windows see it.
 >  Right now I'm setting a dummy variable in my config.sys for the
 >"hostname" variable for TCP/IP. I call in with SLIP, so I
have a dynamic
 >address. I've edited my slipup.cmd to parse and get the value, I have
 >tried setting it with the REXX stuff, specifying
"OS2ENVIRONMENT", etc.
 >but none of the other OS/2 sessions see it, they still read the dummy
 >value from my config.sys. I thought that REXX would do it, but I must
 >be doing something wrong or else there's a better way to do it ??

Hi, Mike.  
Fast hack:
SLIPUP.CMD parses the address and writes it out to a text file.
Any other sessions that have to read it are loaded by a .CMD file that reads
the text file and sets the environment variable.

Of course this is only considered a fast hack under OS/2.  Under Unix,
it's a named pipe.
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