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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On 09 Mar 2001 23:44:00 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said:

> What does POSIX say?

POSIX says quite clearly:

	The name space of environment variable names containing lowercase
	letters is reserved for applications.
		(XBDd5 section 8.1, line 5822)

However, this obviously cannot bind programs such as `fetch' which are
considerer ``applications'' with respect to POSIX.

-GAWollman


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