-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In my opinion, the cost-benefit on this has gotten out of hand -- designing ways to mess about with environment variables which reproduce the complexities of the union of all the likely platforms. . . Just say 'no'! Having said that, the documentation probably does need to say _something_ about environment variables, even if it's no more than "It is implementation-defined what environment variables, if any, are passed down." I know from bitter experience that if steps are _not_ taken to pass the SYSTEMROOT env. var. when running on Windoz OSes then obscure failures result. . . ht - -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh Half-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHTTVukjnJixAXWBoRAvfpAJ4mqvbNbUJd2eVp58q7GvJoWo4h4gCfYoAj N+t4QnZvqhU2Hze/6UC7rcY= =Foch -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 09:31:37 GMT
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