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From: jym@eris.berkeley.edu (& Dyer)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vms
Subject: Re: GOTCHA in VMS GNU EMACS 18.55 (maybe earlier versions also)
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Date: 23 Jan 90 01:59:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu's message of 22 Jan 90 22:45:27 GMT

It is mondo bogus for getenv() to get both symbols and logical
 names (and don't get me started about aliases and DEC/Shell).
  This also munches programs that use their own names as
   environment variables.  So what if you want to create a
    command symbol with the same name as the program?

My solution has been to make a vms_getlnm() function that will
 work like getenv(), but only on logical names.
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