From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13653 invoked from network); 1 May 1998 18:17:39 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 May 1998 18:17:39 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA13429; Fri, 1 May 1998 14:12:42 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 14:12:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:01:01 -0700 Message-Id: <199804302301.QAA29893@wank.pdi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Nik Gervae To: "Timothy Doyle" Cc: Subject: Re: env variables In-Reply-To: <004e01bd747a$78f97b50$80ac2ac0@copenhagen.firstquadrant.com> References: <004e01bd747a$78f97b50$80ac2ac0@copenhagen.firstquadrant.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: Nik Gervae Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: <"ekkZ.0.mH3.P2XIr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3910 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > 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.