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From: kenney@hsi.UUCP (Brian Kenney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: K Shell script problem
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Date: 23 Aug 90 15:25:06 GMT
Reply-To: kenney@hsi.com (Brian Kenney)
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Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT.
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OK, net.gentlepeople, how about this this one? 

In a K Shell script, I have a line like this:

export 	FOO="This is part 1." \
	FOO="${FOO}This is part 2." 
print $FOO

The only thing that is printed is "This is part 2."
Now, if I remove the 'export', so the lines are:

	FOO="This is part 1." \
	FOO="${FOO}This is part 2." 
print $FOO

Now, both parts are printed.

What gives?  Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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       Brian Kenney                                      kenney@hsi.com