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From: wnp@iiasa.ac.at (Wolf PAUL )
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Unusual Environment Variables (was Re: EmTeX on MKS Tool Kit)
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Date: 20 Dec 90 07:04:53 GMT
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In article <465@pallas.athenanet.com> dlee@athenanet.com (Doug Lee) writes:
)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?

Well, depending on how you start the MKS shell: you could set the
variable in COMMAND.COM before starting the MKS shell, and it will
duly be exported and available to PKZIP.
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