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From: dlee@pallas.athenanet.com (Doug Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Unusual Environment Variables (was Re: EmTeX on MKS Tool Kit)
Summary: How do you get PKZIP.CFG defined in the MKS shell?
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Date: 19 Dec 90 01:54:19 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.235708.26093@menudo.uh.edu> <1990Dec14.143523.23435@mks.com>
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In article <1990Dec14.143523.23435@mks.com> paul@mks.com (Paul Steinbach) writes:
>One thing to bear in mind when creating environment variables for a UNIX
>style shell like the MKS korn shell is that the variable names can have
>mixed case.  The programs which use the above variable are probably 
>looking for a variable 'DVIDRVFONTS', and will ignore 'dvidrvfonts'.

On a related note, there is one variable I need which I can't seem to get
the MKS shell to accept:  PKZIP.CFG.  This is used by PKZIP to specify where
the configuration file is.  It seems that dots aren't allowed in variable
names in the MKS shell (probably because they aren't allowed in Unix shells,
either :-) ).  Short of attacking PKZIP with a binary editor and, say,
changing the '.' to a '_', is there a solution to this?
-- 
Doug Lee  (dlee@athenanet.com or uunet!pallas!dlee)