fP environment variables oddity

[Mike Schwartz]

> What's more amazing is no one else seems to be jumping up & down &
> screaming bloody murder or realize how crazy or how harmful it is to
> have a program reacting in subtle but important ways to variables that
> don't appear in any documentation...oh and btw it's been doing that
> silently for the last ?? years.
> 
> ([Pp][Ff]|[Ff][Pp]) != .. !!!
> 
> Brian K. White    brian at aljex.com    http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR
> +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++.
> filePro  BBx    Linux  SCO  FreeBSD    #callahans  Satriani  Filk!

     The saving grace here is that there probably aren't any places where I
would have set a non-filePro variable to something like ??NODEF or ??VER
before launching filePro.  I'm not going to go back through all 25+ years of
fP systems that I've set up in order to look for it, either, but this is
interesting to know, so that I can watch for it.  Maybe I WILL find
someplace where it is burning me and I couldn't figure it out, but for right
now, all of my customers are humming merrily along.

Mike Schwartz
Computer Consultant
Appleton, WI