A brief history of the GetEnvironmentStrings functions

Raymond Chen January 17, 2013 Jan 17, 2013 01/17/13

The Get­Environment­Strings function has a long and troubled history. The first bit of confusion is that the day it was introduced in Windows NT 3.1, it was exported funny. The UNICODE version was exported under the name Get­Environment­StringsW, but the ANSI version was exported under the name Get­Environment...