Re: [clisp-list] Re: environment dependencies

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * In message <159...@is...>
> * On the subject of "[clisp-list] Re: environment dependencies"
> * Sent on Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:59:34 -0800
> * Honorable don...@is... (Don Cohen) writes:
>
> I'd really like to know which environment retains its effect across
> saves

none.

>  > Considering restarting from images, I believe getenv() should not
>    show functional behaviour. It ought to return the current value.
> 
> Surely some of this is cached anyhow.

environment is used to initialize some places, like -encoding*.

>  > Just pass -E utf-8 and all those encodings will use unicode.
>  > the other environment variables should not matter for batch processing.
>  > 
>  > alternatively, you can set the -encoding* places in ~/.clisprc
>  > alternatively, you can make the init function of your image set them
> 
> Ah, the answers!  Even better than setting env.
> Put that in FAQ too.

FAQ already contains this information in the form of references to the
relevant parts of the manual and the impnotes.

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