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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben 'Max' Davis)
Sun Nov 5 17:21:07 2000
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:21:01 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200011052221.RAA15454@mass-toolpike.mit.edu>
From: "Ben 'Max' Davis" <bendavis@MIT.EDU>
To: perl-users@MIT.EDU
Hi.
I've been on this mailing list for a while without
seeing any traffic, so apologies if this is supposed
to be an announcements-only mailing list or something,
but I have a Perl/athena question:
I write scripts that I want to have add certain
athena lockers so that other programs the script
calls are in the user's path for sure.
It seems like this should be easy, but I've been unable
to get anything to do this correctly.
I've tried:
system("add newtex");
system("attach -Padd newtex");
system("eval `attach -Padd newtex`");
but none of these seem to work. I feel like I'm just missing
something basic about the way add/lockers/shells work.
Any suggestions?
thanks,
max
