From: Nik Gervae <Nik@pdi.com>
To: "Timothy Doyle" <tdoyle@fqw.com>
Cc: <zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: env variables
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:01:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199804302301.QAA29893@wank.pdi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004e01bd747a$78f97b50$80ac2ac0@copenhagen.firstquadrant.com>
> The problem seems to be that certain programs do not recognize the existence
> of certain environment variables. The programs are CVS, man, and JDK javac,
> and the variables are CVSROOT, MANPATH, and CLASSPATH respectively. I had
> forgotten about the problem until I just recently changed shells at my new
> job (from csh to zsh), effectively disabling both man and javac. The
> problem seems to be with variables previously (in csh) set with setenv.
I've had this problem with the lowercase "cdpath" environment variable
too. A program here at work looks for it and under zsh it comes back
null. CDPATH exists, of course, but the program I mention doesn't look
for that....
--Nik
Nothing is easy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-05-01 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-30 20:56 Timothy Doyle
1998-04-30 23:01 ` Nik Gervae [this message]
1998-05-01 5:22 ` Geoff Wing
1998-05-01 17:21 ` Nik Gervae
1998-05-01 19:47 ` Geoff Wing
1998-05-01 20:44 ` Nik Gervae
1998-05-04 3:39 ` Geoff Wing
1998-05-04 10:41 ` Bart Schaefer
1998-05-04 17:01 ` Nik Gervae
[not found] ` <74885733@toto.iv>
1998-05-05 0:52 ` Nik Gervae
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