Free selectors and environment variables
Estelle --
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Quote:
> Hi everybody !
> I've got two distinct problems, both in VB 3.0 on WfW 3.11 :
> 1- How is it possible to set the value of an environment variable
> (such as
> PATH) from a VB program ? I know how to read it (Environ$), but I'd
> like to
> change its value.
> 2- I noticed that MS Word uses selectors from the global heap, but
> doesn't
> frees them when it quits, so I have to reboot the machine manually
> (Ctrl-Alt-Del). All I want to do is periodically read the number of
> free
> selectors and automatically reboot when I'm going to run out of
> selectors.
> I read a program written in C++ to retrieve the number of free
> selectors,
> but I'm unable to "translate" it in VB (I'm not very good at reading
> C++).
> Thanks for your help !
> Estelle
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