Re: env variables

[Nik Gervae <Nik@xxxxxxx>]

> The problem seems to be that certain programs do not recognize the existence
> of certain environment variables.  The programs are CVS, man, and JDK javac,
> and the variables are CVSROOT, MANPATH, and CLASSPATH respectively.  I had
> forgotten about the problem until I just recently changed shells at my new
> job (from csh to zsh), effectively disabling both man and javac.  The
> problem seems to be with variables previously (in csh) set with setenv.

I've had this problem with the lowercase "cdpath" environment variable
too. A program here at work looks for it and under zsh it comes back
null. CDPATH exists, of course, but the program I mention doesn't look
for that....

--Nik
  Nothing is easy.