>
> if you want to re-get the value of an environment variable,
> you can do:
>
> ifs=() var=`{cat /env/var}
>

Ok. So if one wants to update the rc's view of the environment, one must
write sth. along the lines

for(var in `{ls /env}) {
    ifs=() contents = `{cat /env/$var}
    if (~ $var *#*) fn `{echo $var | awk '{split($0, a, "#"); print a[1]}'}
{$contents}
    if not var = $contents
}

?

Thanks
Ruda