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From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:30:15 -0800
To: "John Cooper" <John.Cooper@citrix.com>, zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: array/variable inconsistency
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On Feb 4,  3:59pm, John Cooper wrote:
} Subject: array/variable inconsistency
}
} When I set path as an array, the value is reflected in the uppercase PATH
} environment variable:
} 
}     $ path=(one two three)
}     $ echo $PATH
} 
} However, this doesn't work for (most) other variables

PATH and path are "special" variables which zsh handles internally.  The
same is true of FPATH/fpath and a couple of others.

There's no facility for linking an arbitrary pair of variables this way
in any released version of zsh.  This linking feature was added very
recently by a patch to the 3.1.x development version of zsh, but AFAIK
that version has never been ported to Windows.

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