onment-variable</a> name</pre>Returns the value of
the named environment variable as a string, or #f if the named
environment variable is not found. The name argument is expected to be
a string.
get-environment-variable may use
locale-setting information to encode the name and decode the value of
the environment variable.
If get-environment-variable can't decode the value, get-environment-variable may raise an exception.
<pre>(get-environment-variable "PATH") =&gt; "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin: