>> Environment variables are set by the system.
>
>But you can also set them yourself (for example for a CGI) by just
>putting the value into variables named $whatever prior to starting up
>the CGI process. Note that this doesn't apply to MacOS which has no
>concept of environment variables (CGI on the Mac is done with
>AppleEvents instead).
Please... what is the difference between "globals" and "environment
globals"? Are $GLOBALS only of practical value when running external
programs such as a cgi, or do they persist across sessions? The
documentation is rather thin on definition.
/H
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