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From: rmr@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Randy M. Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: SKsh variables
Keywords: Aagh!  Set HOME
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Date: 26 Mar 91 22:36:01 GMT
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In article <6765@khaki14.UUCP> motcid!earl@uunet.uu.NET (Brent R. Earl) writes:
|I believe that I am working with SKsh v1.40 (?).  I am having trouble
|setting some of the SKsh environment variables.  I have tried HOME=app:
|and end up with HOME=: (which is the default).
|
|What am I doing wrong?  I can successfully assign other non-environment
|variables, just have problems with these startup ones.
|
|Reply to uunet!motcid!earl (why trust the evil mailer?)

I know you'd rather me reply to you by email, instead of posting, but
I'm lazy and hit the F key instead of the R key, and ... well ... here
I am.

Did you "export" the variable after you set it?

$ HOME=app:
$ export HOME

Try this, it should (hopefully) work.

You really should get SKSH1.6 from "the alphabet" ftp site (you know
abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov :-)

request:
I hope they add all the neat variable modifier syntax that KSH has!

Regards,
Randy
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Randy M. Roberts
rmr@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu