Re: [MacPerl] empty %ENV

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 0.31 6/20/97, Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote:
>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?
>
>I guess what I'm saying is that this really ought to be in a FAQ somewhere
>(I'd be happy to help write docs, esp. if it meant understanding Perl more).

There is a FAQ.  It is in:

        http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FAQs/mac/

Though the latest version is at:

        http://www.industrialstrengthsw.sk.ca/MacPerl/MacPerlFAQ.html

Of course, this bug in %ENV (it is a bug) is not addressed there.  It should be.

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