Re: Lstreams, coding and md5 (was: Re: [PATCH] menubar selection in mswindows)
Some time ago, P. E. Jareth Hein wrote...
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| Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr> writes:
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| > "Kirill M. Katsnelson" <kkm(a)kis.ru> writes:
| > Well, that variable doesn't look very useful then.
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| At the moment, it is next to useless. None of the environments
| properly set it. Again, serious rethinking is needed.
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It is supposed to be bound in (let...) around calls to call-process
and start-process (and may be others). It has "override everything else"
power, and setting it never is "proper" :)
Kirill