Re: Environment Variable from a form.

From: Rudy Fernandes <rferdy_at_pathcom.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 07:27:32 -0400
Message-ID: <935841167.2101495221@news.pathcom.com>

I could be wrong, but I think your HOST command would run in a child shell, thus setting the environment for the child shell but not affecting the shell running the Form in any way.

Rudy

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Tapan Trivedi wrote: >>Hey Gurus, > Does anyone throw some light into how I can set the UNIX envrironment >variables from within a form. I am trying to do something like > >
> command1 := 'setenv ORACLE_HOME $ORACLE_HOMEDB';
>
>within the code of the button. Can anybody tell me what if anything I am
>doing wrong. Attached is a file with the full code of the form . Please
>tell me if I am doing something wrong.
>
>
>
> Tapan H Trivedi
>
>

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