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- From: geoff@desint.uucp (Geoff Kuenning)
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 85 21:31:36 pst
- Status: O
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- In article <3625@ut-sally.UUCP> allegra!jpl (John P. Linderman) writes:
-
- >3) If the user has specified environment variable H-Vi, use that
- > instead of any lookup value.
-
- Have you every typed "show *" on VMS (or whatever the syntax is; I'm
- glad to say I've forgotten)? You will get a list of literally
- *hundreds* of environment variables, most of which are absolutely
- necessary for the system to work properly. The result is you can never
- find anything.
-
- It is *not* a good idea to cavalierly add variables to the environment.
- In the first place, it increases the cost of forking *and* exec-ing,
- in the second place every program has to provide for the variable, and
- in the third place it makes the user's life more difficult. I'm already
- harassed enough by the size of my environment, thank you.
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-
- Geoff Kuenning
- {hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff
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- Volume-Number: Volume 3, Number 43
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