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From: Robert Pollard <rpollard@apple.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:16:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DDB68D00-03E1-11D8-A446-000A957A7EA8@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F720A32.9030400@yahoo.com>

Hello Kevin,

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 02:18 PM, Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> 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?

SYBASE = /Applications/Sybase/System
SYBASE_OCS = OCS-12_5
SYBASE_ASE = ASE-12_5
PATH = /$SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/bin:$SYBASE/$SYBASE_ASE/bin:$PATH

Thanks,

Robert

>
>
> -- 
> Kevin Rodgers
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-21 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.654.1064432009.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-09-24 21:18 ` [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding Kevin Rodgers
2003-09-25 15:38   ` John Russell
2003-09-25 21:58     ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-21 16:16   ` Robert Pollard [this message]
2003-10-14 21:20 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-21 16:12   ` Robert Pollard
2003-10-21 19:56     ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-10-21 21:28       ` Robert Pollard
2003-10-22 18:23         ` Kai Grossjohann
     [not found] <mailman.2117.1066772419.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-21 23:34 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-22 12:38 ` Hugh Wolf
2003-11-09 17:58   ` Robert Pollard
     [not found] <mailman.2081.1066753006.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-21 16:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-10-21 21:32   ` Robert Pollard
     [not found] <mailman.2080.1066752801.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-21 16:36 ` Hugh Wolf
2003-10-21 21:39   ` Robert Pollard
2003-09-24 19:33 Robert Pollard

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