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From: amos@instable.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: The environment of the parent
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Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 03:52:50 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 20 03:52:50 1986
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In article <261@mipos3.UUCP> pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) writes:
> [ how to set the parent's environment from inside a program ]

Have the program output 'setenv' or 'set...export' commands for the
required variables (use the env var SHELL to know which), and run it
as:  eval `program`
If you have a BSD system or clone, see how 'tset' is used to set
the env variable TERM.
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