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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: K Shell script problem
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Date: 25 Aug 90 00:42:04 GMT
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in article <1980@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>, kenney@hsi.UUCP (Brian Kenney) says:
> export 	FOO="This is part 1." \
> 	FOO="${FOO}This is part 2." 
> print $FOO

Works if you remove the back slash, or change it to a semi-colon, so
export must buffer its setenv(3)'s, and ksh must do them one at a time.
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