L. Neil Johnson wrote:
> Using AS Perl 5.8.7 under W98SE, the PATH environment variable is
> displayed, then assigned a new value; but the new value doesn't propagate
> back to the MS-DOS %PATH% variable. Are the %ENV values read-only?
Basically you can only change the env vrbls for the current task and
any children it spawns - not the parent (you have to do that at boot up).
> C:\Programs\PERL>SET
> ...
> PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\PERL\BIN\;C:\THINKPAD
> ...
>
> C:\Programs\PERL>perl
> print "$ENV{PATH}\n";
> $ENV{PATH} = 'C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND';
> print "$ENV{PATH}\n";
> ^D
> C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\PERL\BIN\;C:\THINKPAD
> C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
>
> C:\Programs\PERL>SET
> ...
> PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\PERL\BIN\;C:\THINKPAD
> ...
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