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Robert Pollard wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am curious as to why my exec path is not expanding the PATH variable. 
>  Does it expand it when it uses it or should it be expanded in the 
> exec-path variable?
> 
> I cannot get a directory listing and as per a previous post I get an 
> error that it can't find the ls program.  Could this be the cause?
> 
> exec-path's value is
> ("/$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin" "$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin" "$PATH" 
> "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin" 
> "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec")

Hmmm.  What do (getenv "SYBASE"), (getenv "SYBASE_OCS"), (getenv "SYBASE_ASE"),
and (getenv "PATH") return?


-- 
Kevin Rodgers