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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ENV: variables (long)
Message-ID: <8809090740.AA16138@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 Sep 88 07:40:34 GMT
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:>keep a million copies of a possibly huge enviroment set lying around in
:>memory now can you!
:
:     I really do not see where Unix environment strings take up all
:that much memory per user.  I am a programmer, and I assume that I
:would have at least the *average* number of variables defined in my
:environment.  Now, doing a "set | wc" (I am using ksh, BTW) I get 34

	But on my Amiga, I might want to put entire files in the ENV: !
For instance, default ICONs and other junk...

					-Matt