Re: Frustration!!

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 05:21  AM, Joe Pluta wrote:

> After some playing around, I found that "set CLASSPATH" doesn't work
> inside of QShell.  In fact, the set command with a parameter doesn't do
> much of anything (without parms it shows the current list of 
> environment
> variables).

It does so work! In fact it works exactly as designed. Welcome to the 
crud we call Unix. set does set the environment variable **BUT** it 
doesn't make it visible. If you want to use the variable you have to 
export it. Most people simply use:
	export -s CLASSPATH='whatever'
to set the variable and make it usable in one step.

Note that the behaviour of set differs depending on which shell is 
active. Thankfully OS/400 supports only one of these things (unless you 
count PASE or Linux in a partition).

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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