Mathieu Bouchard:

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:

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Does anyone know if it's possible to access Linux environment variables from within Pd? ie, in a message object? ...or would I have to write an external for this?

You could do it with pyext:

you can also do it in Ruby:

or Guile:

(pd-inlet 0 'any (lambda (x) (pd-outlet 0 (getenv x))))