Re: CLASSPATH longer than 1024 characters causes ADDENVVAR to fail

Terry,

You appear to have a CCSID problem with your curly brackets, since it works just fine on my system. (tested on both V5R3 and V5R4)

This is from my system:

$
> PTH1=/path1:/path2:/path3
$
> echo ${PTH1}
/path1:/path2:/path3
$

However, that has little to do with this thread. This thread was started by Pete Helgren who was using ADDENVVAR and trying to enable a CLASSPATH for an ILE RPG program. None of which involves QShell or PASE.


Terrence Enger wrote:

On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 20:54 -0500, Scott Klement wrote:

IBM i is not Unix. It's not supposed to be Unix. It's not supposed to work like Unix.

IBM provides QShell for that. And PASE. QShell would expand the variables, as would any of the shells in PASE. They also support both AIX and Linux running on the same hardware, both of which support many shells, all of which would expand these variables?

From a QSH session (the a-umlaut and u-umlaut are opening and closing

curly brackets) ...
| $
| PTH1=/path1:/path2:/path3
| $
| echo $PTH1
| /path1:/path2:/path3
| $
| echo $ÃPTH1Ã
| $ÃPTH1Ã
| $
QP2TERM does the same thing.

Can't IBM give us a modern shell? They did. Many. Probably hundreds.

I sure don't expect IBM i's command-line environment (which is actually *newer* than Unix) to act like Unix. It's not Unix, so why would it? It supports great things, like the ability to prompt commands, the ability to embed help inside commands, and make all command interfaces consistent and easy to write. Easy to use and efficient work-with panels, etc. It's a great system.

Agreed. I should have made it clear that I was complaining about the
POSIX shell.

I have a positive fetish for command definitions, and I really miss
them when I work in bash.

Please don't blame IBM i for being itself.

Oooooh. But it is so much more than that. <grin />

Terrence Enger wrote:

Right you are. I just tried it at V4R3, and ${varname} does not expand

Sorry, I meant V5R3. My facilities are out of date, but not *that*
far out of date.

the variabble. Just another case of me getting use to a beyond-POSIX
extension without realizing it, I guess. Sigh. Can IBM not give us a
modern shell?

Cheers,
Terry.