printer file "name" - problem RESOLVED!!!!!

[John Esak]

Dennis,

No, no. I didn't mean to say it that way. I pair PUTENV and GETENV all the
time when I'm talking about the functions because a high percentage of the
time you would use PUTENV... GETENV comes into play. But no, certainly you
can affect your current environment without having to retrieve the value
within the processing table. Ken's example of TEXTNORMAL being required
immediately and therefore "encountered" once by filePro... means you could
not affect this value, but you could apparently change ERRORNORMAL with
PUTENV and then hit some ERRORBOX subsequently, and the change from default
would be seen.

Actually, I think Ken's explanation is invaluable to understanding PUTENV
and the "current" process.  But since PUTENV is more prevalently used to
affect an exported environment that might be used by SYSTEM and some other
table's use with GETENV... and that is why I will probably still bind them
together in any discussion.

John Esak

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Malen [mailto:dmalen at malen.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 12:45 PM
> To: john at valar.com; Fplist (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: printer file "name" - problem RESOLVED!!!!!
>
>
> John,
>
> Just to clarify, I use PUTENV without GETENV. Are you saying you must use
> GETENV?
>
> Dennis
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
> To: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 7:08 PM
> Subject: RE: printer file "name" - problem RESOLVED!!!!!
>
>
> >
> > Dennis,
> >
> > I have completely avoided this thread... it just seemed to be going on
> > pretty well between you and Ken... or others... I ignored.
> Today I caught
> > one question from either you or Brian (it was apparently from Brian, but
> > looked to be from you.. the whole message was unquoted...)  Anyway, no
> > matter. It mentioned Ken saying that using PUTENV and filePro variables
> > would not affect the current running process...
> >
> > Okay, first off... PUTENV works entirely... correctly, and
> completely. At
> > least it has for me for many years... I rely on it heavily, daily in
> > almost
> > everything I write. I think you should have no qualms about using it and
> > GETENV.  What Ken was probably talking about (and I can only
> guess because
> > I
> > didn't see his words...) was that you can not use PUTENV with
> the filePro
> > PATH variables, i.e., PFDIR, PFDATA and PFPROG... to change the
> > environment
> > of the "current" process.  Doesn't that sound reasonable. As
> for all other
> > variables (maybe excepting PFDSK??) I don't see any problem.
> >
> > Of course, this is just a guess about what you are asking about.
> >
> > John
> >
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