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Article #5820Re: Time Zones: A Plea for Standards?
From: Flint Pellett
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 17:12
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 17:12
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You can always fix it so that you can run all your conflicting applications at once by putting a "wrapper" around them: a small shell script or .bat file that fixes the conflicting variable, runs the application, and then (in the case of DOS) restores the original value of the variable. Of course, lots of people who only want to use the machine, not program it, don't know how to do this. As a developer, you can't win. As someone who has been through the problem of having used an environment var for a few years and then some new thing (in my case, Korn Shell) shows up and uses that same named environment var for something different, you are always at risk. Choosing a weird name may make the chances of a conflict less likely, but won't eliminate it. -- Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc. 1800 Woodfield Drive, Savoy, IL 61874 (217) 352-1165 uunet!gistdev!flint or flint@gistdev.gist.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!gistdev!flint From: flint@gistdev.gist.com (Flint Pellett) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Time Zones: A Plea for Standards? Message-ID: <1166@gistdev.gist.com> Date: 17 Apr 91 17:12:30 GMT References: <1991Apr15.200244.7775@cc.curtin.edu.au> <1991Apr15.155026.20777@menudo.uh.edu> Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL Lines: 16