To answer point #1
This is true except if the script is 'sourced' in csh the command is
'source' in Bourne (sh) and Korn (ksh) it sources using a dot (.) and runs
the script as if it was part of the existing shell.
To add to point #2
It is quite possible that UniData is scanning the UNIX environment and then
storing the variables. The real question is, are they stored in a UDT file
somewhere that they can be edited and thereby altering the UDT environment?
The original entry into UDT ran something like this:
1) log into UNIX
2) .profile runs (not sourced) the menu
3) menu can source the printer set up
4) select database (path to voc)
The new setup causing this trouble:
1) log into UNIX
2) .profile detects Terminal or Other application
if Other application stop at UNIX prompt and let Other application
initiate VOC
if Terminal then send to menu system, allow printer setting, then on to
VOC
Ron Sharcott (3635)
-----Original Message-----
From: Stewart Leicester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 12:29 PM
To: 'U2Users'
Subject: RE: [U2] Shell Escape
I don't know the particulars of these scripts, but 2 things:
1) When you "shell out" of an application you're creating a separate
shell process below the current one which inherits the environment of
the creator. Any changes you make to the environment in the sub-shell
are not propagated back to the parent shell.
2) Most applications, when first invoked, copy the state of
environment variables to some internal structure. So even if you
could change the environment variables in your own process, it
wouldn't change the copy your application (UniData in this case) is
using.
I suspect you're being tripped up by one or both of the above.
Now, if you're executing your scripts *before* starting the UniData
process, I don't know what's wrong.
Good luck!
Stewart
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Sharcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:09:59 -0800
I can't believe this. The results I'm getting are showing UniData only
allowing a shell for the environment variable and won't allow it to be
sourced.
...
Ron Sharcott (3635)
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Stewart Leicester | JenSoft Technologies, LLC
"Per Ardua Ad Astra" | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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