I'm not even real familiar with UNIX export and I expected it to work the other 
way. You set a value and then you send (export) it somewhere, no?

Charles

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On 5/16/2016 8:45 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> OT, but me too. I found the order of  EXPORT and SET to be counterintuitive.

Made the mistake more than once of placing the EXPORT statement *after* the SET 
statements. But, really it's only counterintuitive if you're used to UNIX-style 
export (as apparently we both are). Otherwise, it's just "the way it works..."

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