Re: [MacPerl] empty %ENV

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Neil Kandalgaonkar <njk@odyssee.net> writes:
>mark@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning/Muniz Eng.):
>> The environment
>>variables never show up until you just start using them.
>
>Thanks for the prompt help.
>
>I must say though, that is a major gotcha. Not a complaint (go get your
>Ph.D, Matthias) but just an observation. Some of the scripts out there,
>including Sandra Silcot's libraries (1995), try to list %ENV in the normal
>fashion. So is this an aberration with later versions of MacPerl?

It's an aberration in 5.002 based versions of MacPerl and will no longer occur
in the next release (I didn;t fix it because it was a core bug).

Matthias

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