The environment of the parent

[Amos Shapir]

In article <261 at mipos3.UUCP> pinkas at mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) writes:
> [ how to set the parent's environment from inside a program ]

Have the program output 'setenv' or 'set...export' commands for the
required variables (use the env var SHELL to know which), and run it
as:  eval `program`
If you have a BSD system or clone, see how 'tset' is used to set
the env variable TERM.
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