On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Stone, Timothy wrote:

> Is there something I'm missing here? Something that needs to be turned

You've probably failed to export the variable. You can either:

        export SOME_VARIABLE=foo

or:
        
        SOME_VARIABLE=foo
        export SOME_VARIABLE

But either way, the only way to allow subshells to inherit the variable is 
to export it to the environment.

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