We seek to interactively change components of the PATH environment variable in Windows NT 4.0 (without having to logout and login), effectively employing as if using the System Properties control panel and applying the change.
We know we can perform PATH alterations using the registry API functions, but we cannot seem to isolate how System Properties evidently is able to distribute the altered environment variable values to all existing processes.
Is it even possible to do this with local environment variables?
(Using Unix kshell as an analogy, we seek to run and export an environment variable using ". shell.ksh".)
Thanks in advance
Mark
We know we can perform PATH alterations using the registry API functions, but we cannot seem to isolate how System Properties evidently is able to distribute the altered environment variable values to all existing processes.
Is it even possible to do this with local environment variables?
(Using Unix kshell as an analogy, we seek to run and export an environment variable using ". shell.ksh".)
Thanks in advance
Mark
