Re: Unusual environemtal variables

2008-12-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
Eric Blake: That is inherently non-portable. POSIX states that Other characters may be permitted by an implementation; applications shall tolerate the presence of such names, but does not require applications to be able to create such names. Right. Ehud Karni: This behavior (accepting

Re: Unusual environemtal variables

2008-12-21 Thread Ehud Karni
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:45:14 -0700, Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote: According to Steve Rainbird on 12/19/2008 2:22 AM: SR: When i run a Fuijitsu Cobol program it requires environmental variables SR: starting with the @ sign. That is inherently non-portable. POSIX states that Other characters

Re: Unusual environemtal variables

2008-12-21 Thread Steve Rainbird
Ehud Karni e...@unix.mvs.co.il wrote in message news:200812211606.mblg6lx2014...@beta.mvs.co.il... On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:45:14 -0700, Eric Blake e...@byu.net wrote: According to Steve Rainbird on 12/19/2008 2:22 AM: SR: When i run a Fuijitsu Cobol program it requires environmental

Unusual environemtal variables

2008-12-19 Thread Steve Rainbird
When i run a Fuijitsu Cobol program it requires environmental variables starting with the @ sign. SET @CBR_CONSOLE=SYSTEM When I try and set these in a bash shell I get the following. $ export @CBR_CONSOLE=SYSTEM -bash: export: `...@cbr_console=system': not a valid identifier Is there any

Re: Unusual environemtal variables

2008-12-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Steve Rainbird on 12/19/2008 2:22 AM: When i run a Fuijitsu Cobol program it requires environmental variables starting with the @ sign. That is inherently non-portable. POSIX states that Other characters may be permitted by an