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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:49:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: David Ryan <Oobles AT hotmail DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: export problem.
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David,
This is not a Cygwin bug, this is the way bash is supposed to work.
Try 'man bash<Enter>3618g'.  Also, searching the archives for 'bash
environment export' would have revealed some relevant messages.
	Igor

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, David Ryan wrote:

> I have very simple script that all it needs to do is export some
> environment variables.  I can't seem to get it to work.  All it does is..
>
> export PS2DEV=/usr/ps2dev
>
> If I do this on the command line it works fine..  and if I place it in
> /etc/profile it works also.  I assume whats happenning is its starting a
> shell.. setting the environment variable and then closing the shell.
>  How do I write a script that modifies the current environment?
>
> If I can get the one line working I'll be expanding it, so doing it on
> the command line everytime is not an option.
>
> I have the cygwin 1.3.12-4 installed.  I also tried going back to
> 1.3.10-1 to see if it was a bug.  I'm hoping theres something small I'm
> missing.
>
> Thanks,
> David.

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