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From: bobd@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob DeBula)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: exec environment variables
Keywords: perl environ exec
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Date: 10 Jan 91 17:40:34 GMT
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I am trying to write a very simplistic shell in PERL which
mainly exists to restrict the user to just one program.
What I need to know is how to pass a fake environment variable
(remember this PERL program is the shell) on to the program
I am calling so that the editor (VI) will believe that
$TERM is set to vt100.  Is this a brain dead idea to begin with?
Does anyone have or can provide an example?  Thanks in advance.