Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!gummo!whuxlb!floyd!clyde!burl!rcj From: rcj@burl.UUCP (R. Curtis Jackson) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.4bsd,net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: On-line manual references to environment variables Message-ID: <335@burl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Sep-83 16:00:37 EDT Article-I.D.: burl.335 Posted: Fri Sep 30 16:00:37 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Oct-83 23:00:53 EDT References: <2296@utcsrgv.UUCP> drufl.662, <2014@watarts.UUCP> Organization: Western Electric, Burlington, NC Lines: 17 The good folks who wrote esh, if you have never had occasion to see it or its documentation, allow the user to set single-letter shell variables and then bring the contents of those variables onto the command line with x, where x is the single-character name of a shell variable. GREAT stuff, and VERY useful; I am very sure and not being sarcastic. HOWEVER, if you try to do something stupid like 'man tail' or 'uuto file grock!foo', you will get the strangest messages!! It seems that man and uuto are shells which utilize several single-character variables each........ *sigh*, what will they think of next? -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3814 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ floyd clyde ihnp4 mhuxv ]!burl!rcj