From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14494 invoked from network); 1 May 1998 20:52:01 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 May 1998 20:52:01 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17891; Fri, 1 May 1998 16:48:19 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 16:48:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 13:44:03 -0700 Message-Id: <199805012044.NAA22048@wank.pdi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Nik Gervae To: mason@primenet.com.au Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: env variables Newsgroups: lists.zsh.workers In-Reply-To: References: <199805011721.KAA21663@wank.pdi.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: <"YMfWz3.0.UN4.JKZIr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3913 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > 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