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<h1>Abstract</h1>
This SRFI specifies the procedure get-environment-variable, which gets
the value of the specified environment variable, and the procedure
get-environment-variables, which gets an association list of all
environment variables.

<h1>Rationale</h1>
<p>Most operating systems provide a mechanism for passing auxiliary
parameters implicitly to child processes.  Usually, this mechanism is
called "the environment", and is concep