Re: [NEWBIE] exec path not expanding

[Robert Pollard]

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

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