Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!jejones
From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: SET command
Summary: you want setenv
Message-ID: <1371@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 15:15:08 GMT
References: <8ZBBln200WB78PcV1j@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <8ZBBln200WB78PcV1j@andrew.cmu.edu> rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II) writes:
>I typed 'set PATH /h0/something or other' and the drive fired up seeking
>furiously for a while and then came back with
>
> ^syntax error

To get the effect you want, you should use the "setenv" command.  "Set" is
sort of superfluous as it stands, since one might as well just say "-e" as
"set -e".

	James Jones