useful_environment() skips the uninteresting variables at the start of
an environment block, returning a pointer to the first useful variable.
expand_environment_string() expands a string with
ExpandEnvironmentStrings() and returns a pointer to the expanded string,
which must be freed after use.
set_environment_block() iterates through all the variables in an
environment block, expands each one with expand_environment_string() and
calls SetEnvironmentVariable() with the expanded value.
clear_environment() removes all variables from the current environment.
duplicate_environment() duplicates an environment block by first calling
clear_environment() then set_environment_block() with the source block.
Thus it ensures that the variables in the block - and only those - are
set in the current environment.
Iain Patterson