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 (acceptin

Re: Unusual environemtal variables

2008-12-21 Thread Steve Rainbird
"Ehud Karni" wrote in message news:200812211606.mblg6lx2014...@beta.mvs.co.il... On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:45:14 -0700, Eric Blake 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 @

Re: Unusual environemtal variables

2008-12-21 Thread Ehud Karni
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:45:14 -0700, Eric Blake 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 may

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 imple

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 way