There are plenty of other characters allowed:

setenv 'h e h e' foo

The environment block is just text, I don't think you can really stop 
characters other than '=' and 0x00 begin used.

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tomás Smetana
Sent: Fri 26/09/2008 13:38
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ast-users] ksh/tcsh and variables with hyphen in name
 
Hello,
  I'm having problem with tcsh/ksh interaction:
tcsh allows an environment variable to contain a hyphen in its name, so the
following would work in tcsh:

setenv a-b foo

However when starting ksh from tcsh such a variable is not visible in ksh's
environment and it is not passed on when e.g. starting another tcsh instance
from ksh.

My question is: shouldn't be such variables tolerated in the environment?

Thanks in advance for the answer.

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Tomás Smetana
Sr. Software Maintenance Engineer, Red Hat
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