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What on Earth does the above mean.<br />
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In earlier versions of my program, I used getenv(), and since the environment variable that I was getting had a relatively obscure name, I never had a problem. &nbsp;The compiler wants me to use _dupenv_s() instead, but when I go to the documentation, it has the above warning. &nbsp;<br />
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Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
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What on Earth does the above mean.

In earlier versions of my program, I used getenv(), and since the environment variable that I was getting had a relatively obscure name, I never had a problem.  The compiler wants me to use _dupenv_s() instead, but when I go to the documentation, it has the above warning.  

Any insight will be greatly appreciated.

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