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Subject: RE: incompatible environment variable names
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:45:55 -0700
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Nellis, Kenneth:
> I came across an interesting (IMHO) incompatibility between Windows and b=
ash environment variable names.

You can create odd environment names on Unixish systems too, but nobody rel=
ies on them.

I've had the same issue; a build environment I use required the presence of=
 variable names with '(' and ')' in them. For the moment, I've hacked aroun=
d the issue by calling cmd.exe to do the work before launching the build sy=
stem proper, but eventually, in my Copious Free Time(TM), my plan is to pat=
ch bash and add raw-getenv and raw-setenv builtins that do the obvious thin=
g.


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