I have recently acquired Delphi 6 Personal Edition. I am trying to write a
CGI programme but I am unable to find a way to access environment variables.
Could some one explain how this is done.

Andre

The GetEnvironmentVariable function retrieves the value of the
specified variable from the environment block of the calling process.
The value is in the form of a null-terminated string of characters.

DWORD GetEnvironmentVariable(

    LPCTSTR lpName,     // address of environment variable name
    LPTSTR lpBuffer,    // address of buffer for variable value
    DWORD nSize         // size of buffer, in characters
   );  

Fortunately Delphi knows about APIs

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:04:29 -0000, "Andr Martins Barata"

"Andr Martins Barata" <andremartinsbar...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:9u5q2t$1lq$1@biblio.si.fct.unl.pt...

     function EnvValue (const envVar : string) : string;

     var  buf  : array [0 .. 4095] of char;

     begin
     FillChar (buf, SizeOf (buf), 0);
     GetEnvironmentVariable (pChar (envVar), @buf, SizeOf (buf));
     result := buf;
     end;