Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:08:10 +0300 (IDT)
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On 30 May 2000, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> Just an observation in case you didn't notice: note that the
> environment variable's value is "\yafc" (the backslash!).

I did notice it, but I don't think a backslash is special in an 
environment variable (it's not a C string).

When the library replaces /dev/env/YAFC with the value of the environment 
variable YAFC, it doesn't interpret any characters except `~' (AFAIR).