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Although only a few existing Schemes provide the whole environment as an a-list, I believe that SRFI-98 should at least standardize this as an optional procedure if not a required one. It's true that ANSI C does not provide access to the whole environment, but both Posix and Windows do, as well as pre-Posix Unix-like systems. -- As we all know, civil libertarians are not John Cowan the friskiest group around --comes from cowan@xxxxxxxx forever being on the qui vive for the sound http://www.ccil.org/~cowan of jack-booted fascism coming down the pike. --Molly Ivins