On 10 Jun 2001, at 15:16, Markus Peter wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, George Petri wrote:
> > It spits out nothing...why doesn't PERL detect any of my environment
> > variables? This is critical in some CGI programs that I intend to write (but
>
> Well - because MYVARIABLE is not yet an environment variable, but a
> bash-internal variable. That's the purpose of the "export" command in bash
> - to export variables into the environment :-)
Even when that works in the shell, sometimes the CGI setup is
such that no environment variables are passed (by default, anyway)
for security reasons. FWIW.
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Karen J. Cravens ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
