Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!mks.com!thekeep!terry
From: terry@thekeep.UUCP (Terry D. West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: ENV: is not multiuserable?
Message-ID: <02160.AA02160@thekeep.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 90 11:19:42 GMT
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This has probably come up before (I recall a bunch of stuff on the
ENV: handler a month ago that I put in my kill file :-)...

From what I can gather from the "Enhancer Software" "manual", ENV:
is just a pointer to a block device where files are store by
the name of the environment variable, their contents being 
the contents of the variable.

What a kludge.

This would seem to imply that the "multiuser" amiga where you and
your spouse both have seperate shells have to share the SAME 
environment variables (or alternately have an env var stomping 
contest using a single keyboard :-)

Could some kind soul explain why everyone seems to want to do
their own environment variables?  There's a set in ENV:, a set
in matt's csh (or steve's ksh), and a set created with the Manx "set".

Is there not some way we can come up with a unified proposal for
environment handling that paves the way for future mega power and
a unified interface? Something that C-A and Manx and Matt and
Steve would all with joy and wonder (a little thick, i admit)
adopt?

Ok, you can now flame me.  It just seems like the reasonable thing
to do. (change the env system, not flame me!)

Terry.


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Terry West                                   ...watmath!mks!thekeep!terry
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