From: Nik Gervae <Nik@pdi.com>
To: mason@primenet.com.au
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: env variables
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 13:44:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199805012044.NAA22048@wank.pdi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrn6kk9m5.dqb.mason@coral.primenet.com.au>
> Arrays aren't exported, because there's no standard or de facto method of
> exporting arrays, so nothing would understands them. Only strings are
> exported. From your example, CDPATH is a string, cdpath is an array.
Hmm. That sounds slightly fishy in that csh happily exports array
variables, but then csh is bogus in so many ways.... I've managed
to get access to the source code for the program that's causing me
the trouble, though, so I'll just fix that!
--Nik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-05-01 20:52 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
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 [this message]
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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