Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!philmds!leo
From: leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unsetenv TERMCAP in a csh
Message-ID: <484@philmds.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 10:22:44 GMT
References: <479@cieunix.rpi.edu> <3780@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: leo@philmds.UUCP (L.J.M. de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E DTS Eindhoven
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In article <3780@csli.STANFORD.EDU> gandalf@csli.stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner) writes:
> ...[stuff deleted]...
>Aliases work much better because they are executed in the current 
>environment, whereas scripts are run in a new shell. ...and there is
>no way to change the parent's environment just bu calling a script.

Try the Bourne shell; it has a . command (. script = read commands from script)
so that the parent (the shell) itself reads the commands. But you probably
like the csh better ??!

      Leo (Bourne to be wild).